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2022 Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $48-$75k

1 Ranked Colleges
5 Degrees Awarded
$30,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Master's in Virginia For Those Making $48-$75k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Mining Engineering is the 299th most popular major in the country with 327 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, mining engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $72,088 and had an average of $25,501 in loans still to pay off.

Across Virginia, there were 29 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,300 and $27,125 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality mining engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the mining engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia master’s degree mining engineering students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in Virginia

#1

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Tech. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Mining Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $48-$75k. Blacksburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s mining engineering degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

Virginia Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Mining Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Virginia Tech are $30,547, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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