2024 Best Mining Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
9Master's Degrees
Mining Engineeringmaster's programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major degree program ranks #251 out of the 343 majors we look at each year. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of mining engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 9 master's degrees in mining engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Mining Engineering School for Your Master's Degree
The mining engineering master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality mining engineering program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on mining engineering students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of mining engineering students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt mining engineering students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized mining engineering related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for mining engineering students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Mining Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Mining Engineering in the Southeast Region
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for mining engineering students seeking a a master's degree.
Top Southeast Region Schools for a Master's in Mining Engineering
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).