2025 Best Mining Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region
2Colleges in the Southwest Region
31Mining Engineering Degrees Awarded
$84,287Avg Early-Career Salary
If you're seeking a degree in mining engineering, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #306 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for mining engineering students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 31 degrees in mining engineering to qualified students.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Mining Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Mining Engineering in the Southwest Region
The schools below may not offer all types of mining engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Southwest Region Schools in Mining Engineering
Any student who is interested in mining engineering has to look into University of Arizona. University of Arizona is a very large public university located in the city of Tucson.
Degree recipients from the mining engineering major at University of Arizona make $2,637 above the typical college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.
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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