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2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$10,654 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$94,068 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Electrical Engineering Master's Degree School for You

Electrical Engineering is the #27 most popular major in South Dakota with 29 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Electrical Engineering Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in South Dakota to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for EE students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in South Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for EE majors pursuing a master's degree.

Best South Dakota Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Electrical Engineering

Our analysis found South Dakota State University to be the best value school for electrical engineering students who want to pursue a master’s degree in South Dakota. South Dakota State is a fairly large public school located in the town of Brookings.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at South Dakota State are $9,384 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, South Dakota State is ranked #4 for overall quality for EE in South Dakota.

Full Electrical Engineering at South Dakota State University Report

The excellent master’s degree programs at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value electrical engineering schools in South Dakota. SD Mines is a small public school located in the city of Rapid City.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at SD Mines are $11,924 a year.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Best Value Electrical Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 188
Minnesota 129
Iowa 0
Kansas 32
Nebraska 17
North Dakota 16

One of 39 majors within the area of study, electrical engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to EE

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252
General Engineering 3,548

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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 NASA.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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