2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region

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Mining Engineering is the 306th most popular major in the country with 314 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, mining engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $69,426 and had an average of $26,873 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 57 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,657 and $23,375 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in mining engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in mining engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering in the Southwest Region

1

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro, New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region. New Mexico Tech is a small school located in Socorro, New Mexico that handed out 3 bachelors’s mining engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Mining Engineering at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

2

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

$76,657 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,375 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this large public school awarded 15 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s mining engineering students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Mining Engineering at University of Arizona

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.