Mining Engineeringbachelor's programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major degree program ranks #268 out of the 363 majors we look at each year. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of mining engineering. Combined, these schools handed out 35 bachelor's degrees in mining engineering to qualified students.
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Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to mining engineering students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other mining engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt mining engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized mining engineering related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for mining engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Mining Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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It is difficult to beat Colorado School of Mines if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in mining engineering. Located in the large suburb of Golden, Mines is a public school with a medium-sized student population.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the mining engineering program make about $83,309 in their early career salary.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
