2025 Best General Mechanical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in South Dakota

If you pursue a bachelor's degree in general mechanical engineering, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #10 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Mechanical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in South Dakota ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 148 bachelor's degrees in general mechanical engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

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

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general mechanical engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other general mechanical 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.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general mechanical engineering related body.

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

More Ways to Rank General Mechanical Engineering Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Mechanical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in South Dakota list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

Top South Dakota Schools for a Bachelor's in General Mechanical Engineering

1

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Rapid City, SD

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

76 Annual Graduates

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in general mechanical engineering. Located in the small city of Rapid City, SD Mines is a public school with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in general mechanical engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

2

South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

72 Annual Graduates

South Dakota State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in general mechanical engineering. Located in the town of Brookings, South Dakota State is a public university with a large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in general mechanical engineering from South Dakota State University

Best General Mechanical Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	475	583
Minnesota	446	477
Iowa	403	595
Kansas	352	414
Nebraska	331	132
North Dakota	251	275

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Rankings in Majors Related to General Mechanical Engineering

One of 0 majors within the Mechanical Engineering area of study, General Mechanical Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 Michel Villeneuve. More about our data sources and methodologies.