Mining Engineering at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

What traits are you looking for in a mining engineering school? To help you decide if Southern Illinois University Carbondale is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's mining engineering program.

SIUC is located in Carbondale, Illinois and approximately 11,366 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 2 mining engineering majors received their bachelor's degree from SIUC.

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

SIUC Mining Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mining Engineering

SIUC Mining Engineering Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The mining engineering major at SIUC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Mining 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
Best Value Mining Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	3
Most Popular Mining Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	13

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in mining engineering from SIUC. This is the #14 most popular school for mining engineering master’s degree candidates in the country.

Mining Engineering Student Demographics at SIUC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the mining engineering majors at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

SIUC Mining Engineering Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 2 mining engineering majors earned their bachelor's degree from SIUC. Of these graduates, 100% were men and 0% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 34% more racial-ethnic minorities in its mining engineering bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a bachelor's in mining engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

SIUC also has a doctoral program available in mining engineering. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Biomedical Engineering
• General Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical Engineering

Careers That Mining Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in mining 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 IL, the home state for Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Architectural and Engineering Managers	9,760	$136,270
Engineering Professors	1,330	$114,010
Mining and Geological Engineers	90	$92,530

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 Mark Jaroski under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.