2024 Best Mining Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
3Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
70Mining Engineering Degrees Awarded
$69,334Avg Early-Career Salary
If you're seeking a degree in mining engineering, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #306 one in the country in terms of popularity.While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for mining engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 70 degrees in mining engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of mining engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for mining engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Mining Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Mining Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region
The schools below may not offer all types of mining engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Mining Engineering
Any student pursuing a degree in mining engineering has to check out Colorado School of Mines. Located in the large suburb of Golden, Mines is a public school with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #48 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Mines is a great school overall.
There were approximately 41 mining engineering students who graduated with this degree at Mines in the most recent year we have data available. After graduating, mining engineering degree recipients generally earn about $71,308 in the first five years of their career.
University of Utah is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in mining engineering. U of U is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Salt Lake City. This university ranks 3rd out of 13 schools for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were roughly 8 mining engineering students who graduated with this degree at U of U in the most recent year we have data available. After graduating, mining engineering degree recipients typically make around $67,359 at the beginning of their careers.
Any student pursuing a degree in mining engineering has to look into Montana Technological University. Located in the town of Butte, Montana Tech is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 5th out of 11 colleges for overall quality in the state of Montana.
There were approximately 21 mining engineering students who graduated with this degree at Montana Tech in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of mining engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for mining engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
