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2023 Most Popular Mining Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools

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Finding the Best Mining Engineering Graduate Certificate School for You

Mining Engineering is the #249 most popular major in the country with 132 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Most Popular Mining Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in the United States to see which ones were the most popular graduate certificate programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Mining Engineering program at each school on the list.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Mining Engineering Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named Missouri University of Science and Technology the most popular school in the United States for mining engineering students working on their graduate certificate. Missouri University of Science and Technology is a moderately-sized public school located in the remote town of Rolla.

Of the 24 students majoring in mining engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, 96% are male and 4% are female.

Full Mining Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology Report

#2

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

The in-demand graduate certificate programs at University of Arizona helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular mining engineering schools in the United States. Located in the city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Of the 15 students majoring in mining engineering at University of Arizona, 73% are male and 27% are female.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado School of Mines. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Mining Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools list. Mines is a medium-sized public school located in the large suburb of Golden.

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Out of the 4 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus landed the # 3 spot on the list. Pitt is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Pittsburgh.

Full Mining Engineering at University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus Report

Mining Engineering by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

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

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 averages are for the top 4 schools 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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