2024 Best Mining Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
62Mining Engineering Degrees Awarded
$63,406Avg Early-Career Salary
Mining Engineering degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #306 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of mining engineering. Combined, these schools handed out 62 degrees in mining engineering to qualified students.
The mining engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Mining Engineering rankings. We derive our Best Overall Mining Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Mining Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Mining Engineering in the Southeast Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the mining engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Southeast Region Schools in Mining Engineering
Virginia Tech is a great option for students interested in a degree in mining engineering. Virginia Tech is a very large public school located in the small city of Blacksburg. A Best Colleges rank of #62 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Virginia Tech is a great school overall.
There were approximately 20 mining engineering students who graduated with this degree at Virginia Tech in the most recent data year. Mining Engineering degree recipients from Virginia Tech earn a boost of about $5,640 above the average income of mining engineering majors.
Any student pursuing a degree in mining engineering has to take a look at University of Kentucky. Located in the city of Lexington, UK is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 1st out of 38 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were approximately 25 mining engineering students who graduated with this degree at UK in the most recent year we have data available.
West Virginia University is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in mining engineering. WVU is a fairly large public university located in the city of Morgantown. This university ranks 2nd out of 28 schools for overall quality in the state of West Virginia.
There were approximately 17 mining engineering students who graduated with this degree at WVU in the most recent year we have data available. Students who receive their degree from the mining engineering program earn around $57,766 for their early career.
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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The mining engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Mining Engineering rankings. We derive our Best Overall Mining Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
