Engineering

Biomedical/Medical Engineering

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology · Rapid City, SD

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · related subjectsSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$14,800Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Annual credentials awarded4Average of available recent award years; not the earnings sample size.

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Master's · 2 years after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$78,793
Same subject · national$72,650
Engineering · national$79,058

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Related subjects at 12 matched peer institutions · master's

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $73,906–$87,051.

Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.

Master's outcomes · 2 years after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
University of Connecticut-Hartford CampusBiomedical/Medical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Engineering, General · shared campus reporting$80,124
University of Wisconsin-PlattevilleEngineering, General$87,604
Michigan Technological UniversityCivil Engineering, Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering, Mechanical Engineering$66,244
University of IdahoCivil Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering$77,462
University of Missouri-Kansas CityCivil Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering$74,114
University of Alabama in HuntsvilleElectrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering$86,867
University of Houston-Clear LakeEngineering-Related Fields$103,078
Louisiana Tech UniversityEngineering-Related Fields$82,440
Missouri University of Science and TechnologyCivil Engineering, Engineering, Other, Engineering-Related Fields, Geological/Geophysical Engineering$71,463
University of Washington-Bothell CampusElectrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering$106,421
Oregon State University-Cascades CampusCivil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering$73,282
Purdue University NorthwestEngineering-Related Fields$74,576
How matching & uncertainty work

We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.

If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.

Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.

Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.

Historical cohort outcomes are not promised salaries or a causal effect of attending this programme. College Scorecard earnings cover eligible federal-aid recipients, not every graduate or international student. Source definitions ↗