2025 Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in South Dakota

Electrical Engineering is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #31 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

College Factual reviewed 2 schools in South Dakota to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of electrical engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 40 bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Bachelor’s Degree Schools List

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to electrical engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other electrical engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt electrical engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized electrical engineering related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for electrical engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Electrical Engineering Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in South Dakota ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Electrical Engineering in South Dakota

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.

Top South Dakota Schools for a Bachelor's in EE

1

South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD

12 Annual Graduates

South Dakota State University is a good choice for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Located in the remote town of Brookings, South Dakota State is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from South Dakota State University

2

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Rapid City, SD

28 Annual Graduates

$73,551 Median Starting Salary

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is a good choice for students interested in a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Located in the city of Rapid City, SD Mines is a public school with a small student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the ee program state that they receive average early career wages of $73,551.

More information about a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Best Electrical Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Electrical Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	228	237
Minnesota	215	212
Iowa	197	169
Kansas	184	78
Nebraska	180	57
North Dakota	149	95

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Rankings in Majors Related to EE

One of 41 majors within the Engineering area of study, Electrical Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

EE Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	40

Majors Similar to EE

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	148
Civil Engineering	86
Chemical Engineering	42
Industrial Engineering	30
Biomedical Engineering	22
Metallurgical Engineering	20
Mining Engineering	13
Geoscience Engineering	12
Agricultural Engineering	10
Computer Engineering	8

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to NASA. More about our data sources and methodologies.