2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in South Dakota

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended EE Major in South Dakota for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Electrical Engineering is the 39th most popular major in the country with 28,844 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, electrical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $74,380 and had an average of $24,114 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Dakota, there were 75 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $68,428 and $28,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended EE Major in South Dakota for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in electrical engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in electrical engineering.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended EE Major in South Dakota for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota master’s degree ee students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in South Dakota

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South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Rapid City, South Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended EE Major in South Dakota for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is a small public school situated in Rapid City, South Dakota. It awarded 16 masters’s EE degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

#1 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended EE Major in South Dakota for a Master’s list. South Dakota State is a fairly large public school situated in Brookings, South Dakota. It awarded 5 masters’s EE degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full South Dakota State Electrical Engineering Report

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

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