S.D. School of Mines Reports Promising Job Placement
South Dakota Companies Lead in Hiring Recent School of Mines Grads
New placement figures for the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology show 98 percent of 2014-15 graduates have secured employment with an average starting salary of $63,503 or are pursuing graduate degrees. Ten of the 16 majors had 100 percent placement rates, with the vast majority of students electing to go directly into industry, working at Google, Microsoft, Medtronic, NASA, SpaceX, Keurig and more.
“We are very pleased that, in spite of the softness in hiring in the energy and mining sectors this year, 98 percent of our most recent graduates have successfully started their professional lives,” says Heather Wilson, president of the School of Mines. “As a university, we judge ourselves not by whom we exclude, but by whom we include and their success. This has been another good year for Mines.”