South Dakota State University
School info
3.6
Overall Quality
Reputation
3.8
Food
3.1
Clubs
3.6
Facilities
3.8
Internet
3
Location
3.5
Opportunities
3.7
Safety
4.3
Social
3.5
Happiness
3.9
Basic Information
Location
- Brookings, SD
Institution Overview
- Public/Private: Public land-grant research university
- Established: February 21,1881; 143 years ago (February 21,1881)
- Founder: Dakota Territorial Legislature
Academic information
Key Area
- cybersecurity
- machine learning and artificial intelligence
- human-computer interaction
- data analytics
- health informatics
Student and Staff Numbers
- Students: 11,465
- Undergraduates: 9,717
- Postgraduates: 1,406
- Academic Staff: 622.81 (2021-2022)
- Administrative Staff: Around 40-50
Notable Alumni
- Theodore Schultz
- Gene Amdahl
- Tom Daschle
- Kristi Noem
- Mike Rounds
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Students talk about this school
Good reviews
Overall 5
I love it so much, I wish I didn't finish my school years here. Also great location, so much to do
Overall 5
Best place to live and even better people
Overall 4.8
By far one of the best colleges I have ever been with. Very supportive and helpful. First generation college student I needed that! Just overall amazing!
Overall 4.7
Overall a great school
Overall 4.6
This school was my top choice. It is the best school in South Dakota and one of the best schools in the midwest. For affordability/education ratio, I would rank it top 5 in the nation. SDSU has so many majors and minors it would be a mistake to go anywhere else. It is a fairly large school as well, about 13,000 undergraduates.
Overall 4.6
Excellent school! Mostly Ag students which makes for many great clubs and opportunities to be an ag student here. SDSU has plenty of diversity and strength within other majors as well. Would highly recommend.
Overall 4.5
People that complain about things on this campus have no baseline for other educational institutions. If you apply yourself and get out of your comfort zone you will love it.
Overall 4.5
SDSU is a great agriculture based campus. It has a nice "hometown" feel.
Overall 4.5
Literally cant imagine going anywhere else.
Overall 4.4
I really love SDSU and everything about it. I sometimes wish there were more options for food because it definitely gets annoying to eat the same 10 things over and over again (especially being a very picky eater). I lived in Ben Reifel and the girls weren't very social and everyone kept to themselves. The campus size is perfect!!
Bad reviews
Overall 1
NO PARKING!!! If you don't arrive on campus before 8:30 you wont get a spot. The school has no intention of fixing this issue. They say this campus is a "walking campus" but that's a lie. If you can wanna get across campus in 10 mins you better be running ( good luck in the winter).
Overall 1
Worst possible place you could attend university.
Overall 1.6
The campus is very outdated. Food options are extremely unhealthy and very expensive. I've had countless professors who are so foreign that they are impossible to understand. The majority of Brookings is houses that should be bulldozed. I really don't have anything good to say about the campus. In the library some areas don't even have good wifi!
Overall 1.8
This school is a looker, not only are there only three places to eat on campus but they are rarely open. Regarding parking, I recommend selling your car because then you won't have to worry about a parking ticket because you wanted to eat that day and you didn't want to walk in sub-zero temps. DONT GO HERE :D