2022 Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $48-$75k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Materials Engineering is the 189th most popular major in the country with 3,485 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across South Dakota, there were 3 general materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 general materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general materials engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general materials engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota master’s degree materials processing and manufacturing students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Materials Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in South Dakota

#1

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Rapid City, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$19,250 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Master’s in South Dakota For Those Making $48-$75k list. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is a small public school situated in Rapid City, South Dakota. It awarded 2 masters’s materials processing and manufacturing degrees in 2019-2020.

SD Mines also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology are $19,250, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about General Materials Engineering at SD Mines

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Materials Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in the Plains States Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Materials Engineering (Income $48-$75k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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