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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Tool Tech Major in South Dakota” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Machine Tool Technology/Machinist is the 480th most popular major in the country with 3,181 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across South Dakota, there were 26 machine tool technology/machinist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 15 machine tool technology/machinist graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,526 and $16,550 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Tool Tech Major in South Dakota” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in machine tool technology/machinist. That schools that top this list have a program in machine tool technology/machinist in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Tool Tech Major in South Dakota”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lake Area Technical Institute. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Tool Tech Major in South Dakota list. This small school is located in Watertown, South Dakota, and it awarded 11 associates’s machine tool tech degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Dakota Technical Institute. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Tool Tech Major in South Dakota list. Located in Rapid City, South Dakota, this small public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified associates’s machine tool tech students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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
- *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.
