2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Mining Engineering is the 306th most popular major in the country with 312 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , mining engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $70,054 and had an average of $22,171 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 90 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,406 and $22,905 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mining engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their mining engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree mining engineering students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. Virginia Tech is a large public school situated in Blacksburg, Virginia. It awarded 5 masters’s mining engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full Virginia Tech Mining Engineering Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Morgantown, West Virginia, and it awarded 6 masters’s mining engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Mining Engineering at WVU
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kentucky landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Lexington, Kentucky, this large public school handed out 5 degrees to qualified masters’s mining engineering students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Mining Engineering at UK
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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%.
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- *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.
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