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2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$10,705 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$68,428 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Electrical Engineering 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.

The Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools in South Dakota ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in South Dakota to see which ones offered the best value 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 Schools in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Electrical Engineering Colleges.

Best South Dakota Schools for Affordable Quality in Electrical Engineering

$9,299 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named South Dakota State University the best value school in South Dakota for electrical engineering students. South Dakota State is a fairly large public school located in the town of Brookings.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at South Dakota State are $9,299 a year.

South Dakota State also took the #3 spot in our Best Electrical Engineering Schools in South Dakota rankings.

Full Electrical Engineering at South Dakota State University Report

$12,110 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is a great value for electrical engineering students. SD Mines is a small public school located in the small city of Rapid City.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at SD Mines are $12,110 per year.

Full Electrical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Report

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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