2023 Most Well Attended Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Mining & Mineral Engineering is the 732nd most popular major in the country with 314 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 57 mining and mineral engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 mining and mineral engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in mining and mineral engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful mining and mineral engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Mining & Mineral Engineering Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Most Well Attended Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree mining and mineral engineering students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mining & Mineral Engineering in the Southwest Region

1

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Arizona is a large school located in Tucson, Arizona that handed out 15 bachelors’s mining and mineral engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Mining & Mineral Engineering at University of Arizona

2

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro, New Mexico

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Socorro, New Mexico, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s mining and mineral engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full New Mexico Tech Mining & Mineral Engineering Report

• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mining & Mineral Engineering

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Alastair Rae.