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Best Value Mining Engineering Schools in South Dakota

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2023 Best Value Mining Engineering Schools in South Dakota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$12,110 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Mining Engineering School for You

With 14 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, mining engineering is the #40 most popular major in South Dakota.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Mining Engineering Schools in South Dakota ranking.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Mining Engineering Colleges.

Best Mining Engineering School

$12,110 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found South Dakota School of Mines and Technology to be the best value school for mining engineering students who want to pursue a degree in South Dakota. SD Mines is a small public school located in the city of Rapid City.

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

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Best Value Mining Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 37

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

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252

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 Alastair Rae.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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