Mines ranks among the top schools in the nation for
exceeding standards of culture and commitment, academia, admissions, financial
aid, return on investment and support for military students.
Military
Friendly has ranked South Dakota Mines third in the nation for its service to
veterans. Mines is the only public university in the state in its category to achieve a Top 10
ranking from the organization as a “2022-2023 Military Friendly®
School.”
Mines ranks among the top schools in the nation for
exceeding standards of culture and commitment, academia, admissions, financial
aid, return on investment and support for military students.
The Military Friendly website states:
“South Dakota Mines is an excellent choice for
military students because, most importantly, the school's graduate placement
rate for military/veteran students is 100% for the past six years. Also, South
Dakota Mines is a STEM university, meaning its academic programs focus on
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, fields heavily targeted by
today's employers, and for which military students are particularly suited.
Additionally, the support that military students receive here is phenomenal,
such as: a benchmark Veterans Resource Center; Veterans Upward Bound on site;
veteran-to-veteran tutoring/mentoring; military-specific orientation;
military-specific scholarship, financial literacy, and college success
workshops; and yearly, multiple, campus-wide military appreciation events."
“Placing within the top 10 in the nation again is a
huge honor but the real honor is being able to work with the veteran scholars
at South Dakota Mines. The level of hard work and dedication they put into
earning their degrees is truly phenomenal,” says Derek Flom, director of the Veterans
Resource Center at Mines.
Institutions earning the Military Friendly school
designation were evaluated using both public data sources and responses from a
proprietary survey. More than 1,800 schools participated in the 2022-2023
survey with 665 earning special awards for going above the standard.
The 2022-2023 Military Friendly® Schools list will
be published in the May and October issue of G.I. Jobs magazine and can be
found at www.militaryfriendly.com.