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South Dakota School of Mines and Technology offers graduate degree programs at the master‘s and doctoral levels. The graduate program provides opportunities for advanced study and research in the fields of engineering and science. Each individual degree program of study is designed to broaden and extend the student‘s knowledge within the chosen field, to develop the power of independent, critical thinking and to promote individual and cooperative research skills.
The first Master‘s Degree program was authorized at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in October 1935, and the first degree was granted in 1937. Permission to offer the first Ph.D. program was granted in January 1967 to the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering. Six additional Ph.D. programs have been authorized since that time with the most recent addition being a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2009. The Graduate Office was created in the 1950-51 academic year.
The policies of the Graduate Office are formulated with the assistance of the Council on Graduate Education, which is advisory to the Dean of Graduate Education. The policies are approved by the Faculty Senate and the Board of Regents and are administered by the Graduate Dean.
Forms mentioned in the catalog are available at the Graduate Office or on the graduate education website.
The Council on Graduate Education
The Council on Graduate Education consists of representatives from each graduate program and the Dean of Graduate Education or his/her designee. (The Vice President for Academic Affairs serves in an ex-officio capacity.)
Graduate Programs
Master of Science degrees are offered in:
Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Computational Sciences and Robotics
Construction Management
Electrical Engineering
Engineering Management
Geology and Geological Engineering
Materials Engineering and Science
Mechanical Engineering
Mining Engineering
Paleontology
Physics
Doctor of Philosophy degrees are offered in:
Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Geology and Geological Engineering
Materials Engineering and Science
Mechanical Engineering
Nanoscience and Nanoengineering
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