2023 Most Popular Colleges for Mining Engineering in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 “Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in mining engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful mining engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region mining engineering students.

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

1

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 #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region list. Tucson, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s mining engineering degrees to 45 students 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

2

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 Most Well Attended Mining Engineering Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 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

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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.