2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering in the Plains States Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’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. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree mining engineering students.

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

1

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

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Rapid City, South Dakota, this small public school handed out 14 diplomas to qualified masters’s mining engineering students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about 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

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Missouri University of Science and Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. Rolla, Missouri is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s mining engineering degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read full report on Mining Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology

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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

• *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.