2023 Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 314 people earned their degree in mining engineering, making the major the 306th most popular in the United States. 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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mining engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular mining engineering programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate

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

Top 2 Most Popular 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 be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate list. UK is located in Lexington, Kentucky and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 doctorate’s mining engineering degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Kentucky Mining Engineering Report

2

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia

#7 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #2 spot on the list. Virginia Tech is a public institution located in Blacksburg, Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.

Full Virginia Tech Mining Engineering Report

• Most Popular 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.