2027 Best Mining Engineering Schools in Virginia
Mining Engineering degree programs prepare students for a range of careers in the field. The schools below stand out for the quality of their mining engineering programs.
For its 2027 ranking, College Factual looked at 1 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for mining engineering students pursuing a degree.
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Best Schools for Mining Engineering in Virginia
If you are not interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the mining engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Schools in Mining Engineering
No school ranked higher than Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University this year for mining engineering. This very large public university is located in the city of Blacksburg. Roughly 86% of students complete a degree within six years here. Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University awarded about 29 mining engineering degrees in the most recent data year. Students who receive their mining engineering degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University earn around $74,793 in the first couple years of their career. Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University graduates carry a median of $20,907 in student loans.
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Notes and References
The ranking above is published by College Factual (MF_RANKING_2025), 2027 edition. The methodology weighs graduation rate, post-graduation earnings, cost, and program quality, drawn primarily from the U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS and College Scorecard).
Ranking method: College Major Top Ranked · 1 school evaluated.
- 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).
More about our data sources and methodologies.
