2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Mechanical Engineering School for You

Mechanical Engineering is the #48 most popular major in South Dakota with 11 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. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools in South Dakota to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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.

Check out the ME programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Mechanical Engineering School

#1

South Dakota State University

Brookings, SD

11 Degrees

#3 in Quality in South Dakota

$9,299 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named South Dakota State University the best value school in South Dakota for mechanical engineering students. South Dakota State is a 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 did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Mechanical Engineering Schools in South Dakota list.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering at South Dakota State University

Best Value Mechanical Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Region

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Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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 Michel Villeneuve.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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