2023 Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Far Western US Region for a Master’s” 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 Far Western US region, there were 15 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 3 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 Far Western US Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree mining engineering students.

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering in the Far Western US Region

1

University of Nevada - Reno
Reno, Nevada

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nevada - Reno. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s. Reno, Nevada is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s mining engineering degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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 full report on Mining Engineering at UNR

2

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #2 spot on the list. UAF is located in Fairbanks, Alaska and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s mining engineering degrees to qualified students.

Full University of Alaska Fairbanks Mining Engineering Report

3

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

#11 overall quality in Far Western US

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Washington - Seattle Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. UW Seattle is a public institution located in Seattle, Washington. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Mining Engineering at University of Washington - Seattle Campus

• Most Popular Master’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.