2023 Schools Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 57 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,657 and $23,375 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest 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 Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Mining Engineering in the Southwest Region

1

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro, New Mexico

$57,275 Average Early-Career Earnings

$19,298 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. New Mexico Tech is a public institution located in Socorro, New Mexico. The school has a small population, and it awarded 12 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full New Mexico Tech Mining Engineering Report

2

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

$46,654 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,917 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Arizona is located in Tucson, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 45 ’s mining engineering degrees to qualified students.

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

Read more about Mining Engineering at University of Arizona

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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.