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2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

1 Ranked Colleges
1 Degrees Awarded
$22,000 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region

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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 Great Lakes region, there were 5 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality mining engineering programs that also have a lower cost than 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan Technological University landed the #1 spot on the list. Michigan Technological University is a public institution located in Houghton, Michigan. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Michigan Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Mining Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Michigan Technological University are $21,996.

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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

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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