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2023 Best Value Mining Engineering Schools in Virginia

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$14,174 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$69,045 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Mining Engineering School for You

In 2020-2021, 7 degrees and certificates were awarded to mining engineering students who went to a Virginia college or university. This makes it the #170 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Mining Engineering Schools in Virginia to help you in your search for the best school for you.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Mining Engineering Colleges.

Best Mining Engineering School

#1

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA
$14,174 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Virginia Tech to be the best value school for mining engineering students who want to pursue a degree in Virginia. Located in the city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Virginia Tech undergraduate students pay an average of $14,174 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Virginia Tech is ranked #3 for overall quality for mining engineering in Virginia.

Read full report on Mining Engineering at Virginia Tech

Best Value Mining Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Mining Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kentucky 6
West Virginia 3

One of 39 majors within the area of study, mining engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Mining Engineering

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • 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.

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