by our College Data Analytics TeamFor its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for mining engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 73 bachelor's degrees in mining engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Your choice of mining engineering for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality mining engineering program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges 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 Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in mining engineering.
It's difficult to beat Virginia Tech if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in mining engineering. Virginia Tech is a fairly large public school located in the city of Blacksburg.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the mining engineering program report average early career income of $74,793.
More information about a bachelor’s in mining engineering from Virginia Tech
University of Kentucky is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in mining engineering. Located in the large city of Lexington, UK is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in mining engineering from University of Kentucky
West Virginia University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in mining engineering. WVU is a very large public university located in the small city of Morgantown.
Bachelor's recipients from the mining engineering major at West Virginia University make $5,552 more than the standard graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
More information about a bachelor’s in mining engineering from West Virginia UniversityExplore the best mining engineering schools for a specific state in the Southeast Region .
| State | Colleges | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 213 | 13 |
| Kentucky | 187 | 19 |
| West Virginia | 147 | 14 |
Mining Engineering is one of 41 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.
| Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Mining & Mineral Engineering | 73 |
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 6,992 |
| Civil Engineering | 3,350 |
| Electrical Engineering | 2,927 |
| Computer Engineering | 2,537 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 2,056 |
| Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering | 1,925 |
| Chemical Engineering | 1,813 |
| Industrial Engineering | 1,686 |
| General Engineering | 801 |
| Environmental Engineering | 357 |
