2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering in the Southwest Region

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 Southwest Region for a Master’s” 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 Southwest region, there were 57 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,657 and $23,375 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in mining engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in mining engineering.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering in the Southwest Region

1

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. New Mexico Tech is a small public school situated in Socorro, New Mexico. It awarded 9 masters’s mining engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Mining Engineering Report

2

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Arizona is a public institution located in Tucson, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 8 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Mining Engineering at University of Arizona

• 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.