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2023 Most Popular Mining Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

3 Colleges
$69,334 Avg Salary
$25,500 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Mining Engineering School for You

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

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. 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.

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 Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to see which ones were the most popular 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 Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named Colorado School of Mines the most popular school in the Rocky Mountains Region for mining engineering students. Located in the suburb of Golden, Mines is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

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The excellent programs at Montana Technological University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best mining engineering schools in the Rocky Mountains Region . Montana Tech is a small public school located in the town of Butte.

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#3

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

The excellent programs at University of Utah helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best mining engineering schools in the Rocky Mountains Region . U of U is a very large public school located in the city of Salt Lake City.

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Best Mining Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best mining engineering colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains region.

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 14
Utah 3
Montana 4

Mining Engineering is one of 39 different types of programs to choose from.

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 3 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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