2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Mining & Mineral Engineering in the Southeast Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Mining & Mineral Engineering is the 732nd most popular major in the country with 314 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 62 mining and mineral engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 mining and mineral engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mining and mineral engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in mining and mineral engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree mining and mineral engineering students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Mining & Mineral Engineering in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Tech. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southeast Region. Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 masters’s mining and mineral engineering degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Mining & Mineral Engineering at Virginia Tech
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Morgantown, West Virginia, this large public school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s mining and mineral engineering students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Mining & Mineral Engineering at WVU
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kentucky. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Lexington, Kentucky, this large public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s mining and mineral engineering students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Kentucky Mining & Mineral Engineering Report
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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
- *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.
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