2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering in the Far Western US Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 327 people earned their degree in mining engineering, making the major the 299th most popular in the United States. 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 Far Western US region, there were 15 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,319 and $48,880 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent mining engineering programs, but they also 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering in the Far Western US Region

#1

University of Nevada - Reno

Reno, Nevada

#1 in overall quality

$21,971 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nevada - Reno landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Nevada - Reno is a large school located in Reno, Nevada that handed out 2 masters’s mining engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our far western us region master’s degree mining engineering students list, UNR has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Mining Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UNR are $21,971, 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Alastair Rae.

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