2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Southeast region, there were 62 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,406 and $28,744 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in mining engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in mining engineering.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree mining engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering in the Southeast Region

1

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kentucky. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region. University of Kentucky is a public institution located in Lexington, Kentucky. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Mining Engineering at University of Kentucky

2

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia

#7 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Blacksburg, Virginia, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s mining engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Mining Engineering at Virginia Tech

• Most Focused Doctor’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.