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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in South Dakota for Machine Tool Tech” 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 3,285 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across South Dakota, there were 21 machine tool technology/machinist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent machine tool technology/machinist programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the machine tool technology/machinist program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 “Most Veteran Friendly in South Dakota for Machine Tool Tech” list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota vets studying machine tool tech.
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in South Dakota for Machine Tool Tech that were part of this year’s ranking, Lake Area Technical Institute landed the #1 spot on the list. Watertown, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s machine tool tech degrees to 16 students in 2020-2021.
LATI also took the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] spot in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 136 of the 2,217 students enrolled at Lake Area Technical Institute were GI Bill® students, of which 40 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $4,486. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Lake Area Technical Institute offers credit for military training for eligible students.
[Read full report on veteran student life at LATI]](/colleges/lake-area-technical-institute/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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.