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2023 Best Mining Engineering Colleges for Veterans in the Far Western US Region

1 Ranked Colleges
15 Degrees Awarded
$31,800 Avg Cost*
Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Mining Engineering

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Mining Engineering” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Mining Engineering is the 306th most popular major in the country with 314 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, mining engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $69,426 and had an average of $26,873 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 15 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality mining engineering programs as well as strong veteran support.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the mining engineering program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The mining engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Mining Engineering”.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Mining Engineering

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Mining Engineering”.

Top 1 Best Mining Engineering Colleges for Veterans in the Far Western US Region

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Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Far Western US Region for Mining Engineering that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nevada - Reno landed the #1 spot on the list. Reno, Nevada is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s mining engineering degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.

UNR also took the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] spot in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.According to our most recent data, UNR supports 20,722 students, and 669 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 351 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $5,493. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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