2025 Best Mining Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Mining Engineeringbachelor's programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major degree program ranks #268 out of the 363 majors we look at each year. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.

College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of mining engineering. Combined, these schools handed out 35 bachelor's degrees in mining engineering to qualified students.

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to mining engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other mining engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt mining engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized mining engineering related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for mining engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Mining Engineering Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Mining Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Mining Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in mining engineering.

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Mining Engineering

1

Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO

17 Annual Graduates

$83,309 Median Starting Salary

It is hard to beat Colorado School of Mines if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in mining engineering. Located in the large suburb of Golden, Mines is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the mining engineering program earn an average of $83,309 for their early career.

More information about a bachelor’s in mining engineering from Colorado School of Mines

2

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

12 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat University of Utah if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in mining engineering. U of U is a fairly large public university located in the city of Salt Lake City.More information about a bachelor’s in mining engineering from University of Utah

Best Mining Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best mining engineering schools for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Utah	204	5
Colorado	190	27
Montana	134	17

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Mining Engineering Related Rankings by Major

One of 41 majors within the Engineering area of study, Mining Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Mining Engineering Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Mining & Mineral Engineering	35

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	2,032
Civil Engineering	788
Electrical Engineering	527
Chemical Engineering	495
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	356
Computer Engineering	337
Biomedical Engineering	191
Environmental Engineering	169
Electrical and Computer Engineering.	149
General Engineering	106

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Alastair Rae. More about our data sources and methodologies.