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2022 Best Vallue Mining Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making Over $110k

1 Ranked Colleges
9 Degrees Awarded
$39,800 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Vallue Mining Engineering Schools for a Master's in Colorado For Those Making Over $110k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue Mining Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Colorado, there were 30 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,400 and $22,125 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,789 and $41,587 respectively.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the mining engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Vallue Mining Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making Over $110k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Vallue Mining Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado master’s degree mining engineering students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering (Income Over $110k) in Colorado

#1

Colorado School of Mines

Golden, Colorado
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Vallue Mining Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado School of Mines landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Golden, Colorado, this medium-sized public school awarded 9 degrees to qualified masters’s mining engineering students in 2019-2020.

Mines also took the #1 spot in our “Best Mining Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Mines are $39,800, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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