2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region

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Mining & Mineral Engineering is the 732nd most popular major in the country with 314 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 5 mining and mineral engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 mining and mineral engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mining and mineral engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in mining and mineral engineering.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree mining and mineral engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Mining & Mineral Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

1

Michigan Technological University
Houghton, Michigan

#22 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan Technological University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Houghton, Michigan, this medium-sized public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s mining and mineral engineering students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about Mining & Mineral Engineering at Michigan Tech

2

Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Carbondale, Illinois is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s mining and mineral engineering degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Full Southern Illinois University Carbondale Mining & Mineral Engineering Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Mining & Mineral Engineering

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Alastair Rae.