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2022 Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

1 Ranked Colleges
21 Degrees Awarded
$69,100 Avg Salary
Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Mining Engineering is the 299th most popular major in the country with 327 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, mining engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $72,088 and had an average of $25,501 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 53 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $69,100 and $22,150 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great mining engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the mining engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in the Southwest Region

#1

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 21 bachelors’s mining engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Arizona also made our “Best Mining Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for University of Arizona is $15,399 for southwest region bachelor’s degree mining engineering students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Arizona Mining Engineering Report

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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