Engineering at Colorado School of Mines

If you are interested in studying engineering, you may want to check out the program at Colorado School of Mines. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Mines is located in Golden, Colorado and has a total student population of 6,744. Of the 1,066 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Colorado School of Mines in 2021, 865 of them were engineering majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

Mines Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Master’s Degree in Engineering
• Doctorate Degree in Engineering

Mines Engineering Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks engineering programs across the country. The following shows how Mines performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The engineering major at Mines is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Engineering. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	14
Most Popular Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	32
Best Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	37
Best Engineering Schools	43
	46
Best Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	51
Most Popular Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools	55
	58
Best Value Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools	78
Best Value Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	173

In 2021, 249 students received their master’s degree in engineering from Mines. This makes it the #49 most popular school for engineering master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 62 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #56 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Mines

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering majors at Colorado School of Mines.

Mines Engineering Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 865 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in engineering from Mines. About 69% were men and 31% were women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% women. So female students are more repesented at Mines since its program graduates 6% more women than average.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering at Mines are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Colorado School of Mines with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	36
Black or African American	13
Hispanic or Latino	87
White	632
International Students	42
Other Races/Ethnicities	55

Mines Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 249 students who graduated with a master’s in engineering from Mines in 2021, 70% were men and 30% were women.

Of the students who received a engineering master's degree from Mines, 66% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Colorado School of Mines with a master's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	13
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	164
International Students	42
Other Races/Ethnicities	14

Mines also has a doctoral program available in engineering. In 2021, 62 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Engineering

If you plan to be a engineering major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Colorado School of Mines. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Mechanical Engineering	361
Chemical Engineering	154
Civil Engineering	116
Electrical Engineering	103
Petroleum Engineering	86
Metallurgical Engineering	66
Engineering Physics	59
Geoscience Engineering	59
Systems Engineering	45
Mining Engineering	41
Environmental Engineering	41
Materials Engineering	20
Manufacturing Engineering	14
General Engineering	8
Robotics Engineering	8
Nuclear Engineering	7
Biomedical Engineering	7
Biological Engineering	6

Related Majors

• Biological & Biomedical Sciences
• Engineering Technologies
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Physical Sciences
• Computer & Information Sciences

Careers That Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in engineering can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CO, the home state for Colorado School of Mines.

Occupation	Jobs in CO	Average Salary in CO
Software Applications Developers	30,400	$106,730
Systems Software Developers	11,170	$124,410
Civil Engineers	10,680	$93,560
Computer Network Architects	6,040	$115,300
Electronics Engineers	5,630	$105,560

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Cperko under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.