Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #7 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
There was only one school in South Dakota to review for the 2025 Best Engineering Schools in South Dakota ranking.
The engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Engineering Schools in South Dakota.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in engineering. Located in the city of Rapid City, SD Mines is a public school with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their degree from the engineering program state that they receive average early career earnings of $70,524.
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).