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

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In 2020-2021, 314 people earned their degree in mining and mineral engineering, making the major the 732nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 57 mining and mineral engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 mining and mineral engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in mining and mineral engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular mining and mineral engineering programs in the United States.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s”.

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

1

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. Located in Socorro, New Mexico, this small public school handed out 9 diplomas to qualified masters’s mining and mineral engineering students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Mining & Mineral Engineering at New Mexico Tech

2

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Mining and Mineral Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s. University of Arizona is a large public school situated in Tucson, Arizona. It awarded 8 masters’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 full report on Mining & Mineral Engineering at University of Arizona

• Most Popular Master’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.