2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering in the Plains States 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 Plains States region, there were 95 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,419 and $28,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mining engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their mining engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

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

1

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Rapid City, South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Plains States Region list. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is located in Rapid City, South Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 bachelors’s mining engineering degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Mining Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

2

Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, Missouri

#13 overall quality in Plains States

$74,419 Average Early-Career Earnings

$28,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Missouri University of Science and Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Rolla, Missouri, this medium-sized public school awarded 18 degrees 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. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Missouri University of Science and Technology Mining Engineering Report

• 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.