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2023 Best Mining Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region

1 Ranked Colleges
17 Degrees Awarded
$25,000 Avg Cost*
Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Mining Engineering for a Master's

With all of the options veterans 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 Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Mining Engineering 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 Southwest region, there were 57 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,657 and $23,375 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality mining engineering programs as well as strong veteran support.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the mining engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Mining Engineering for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree vets studying mining engineering.

Top 1 Best Mining Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region

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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 Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Mining Engineering for a Master’s list. Located in Socorro, New Mexico, this small public school awarded 9 degrees to qualified masters’s mining engineering students in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at New Mexico Tech, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Mining Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Among the 1,686 students enrolled at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 36 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 18 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,987. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

[Read full report on veteran student life at New Mexico Tech]](/colleges/new-mexico-institute-of-mining-and-technology/student-life/veterans/)

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