2025 Best Mining Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
90Mining Engineering Degrees Awarded
$84,287Avg Early-Career Salary
Mining Engineering degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #306 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
For 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 degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 90 degrees in mining engineering annually.
The mining engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Mining Engineering rankings. We derive our Best Overall Mining Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Mining Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Mining Engineering in the Southeast Region
If you aren't 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 Southeast Region Schools in Mining Engineering
Virginia Tech is a wonderful decision for students interested in a degree in mining engineering. Virginia Tech is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Blacksburg. A Best Colleges rank of #58 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Virginia Tech is a great school overall.
There were approximately 44 mining engineering students who graduated with this degree at Virginia Tech in the most recent year we have data available. Students who receive their degree from the mining engineering program earn an average of $74,793 for their early career.
Every student pursuing a degree in mining engineering has to check out University of Kentucky. Located in the city of Lexington, UK is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 1st out of 39 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were approximately 23 mining engineering students who graduated with this degree at UK in the most recent data year.
West Virginia University is a wonderful decision for students pursuing a degree in mining engineering. WVU is a very large public university located in the small city of Morgantown. This university ranks 2nd out of 25 colleges for overall quality in the state of West Virginia.
There were about 23 mining engineering students who graduated with this degree at WVU in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the mining engineering program earn around $85,897 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).
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The mining engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Mining Engineering rankings. We derive our Best Overall Mining Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
