If you're seeking a Bachelor's Degree in mining engineering, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #268 one in the country in terms of popularity.While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
There was only one school in the Southwest Region to review for the 2025 Best Mining Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. If you would like to see more options to choose from, check out the Best Bachelor's Degree Schools in the United States ranking..
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 Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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It's hard to beat University of Arizona if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in mining engineering. Located in the city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the mining engineering program earn around $86,924 in the first couple years of working.
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).
