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.
There was only one school in Arizona to review for the 2025 Best Mining Engineering Schools in Arizona ranking.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Mining Engineering Schools in Arizona ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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.
It is difficult to beat University of Arizona if you want to pursue a degree in mining engineering. Located in the large city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Mining Engineering degree recipients from University of Arizona earn a boost of around $2,637 over the typical earnings of mining engineering graduates.
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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