Mining Engineering at Virginia Tech

Every mining engineering school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the mining engineering program at Virginia Tech stacks up to those at other schools.

Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia and approximately 37,024 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 13 students received a bachelor's degree in mining engineering from Virginia Tech.

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.

Virginia Tech Mining Engineering Degrees Available

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

Virginia Tech Mining Engineering Rankings

The mining engineering major at Virginia Tech 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.

In 2021, 5 students received their master’s degree in mining engineering from Virginia Tech. This makes it the #6 most popular school for mining engineering master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 2 students who received their doctoral degrees in mining engineering, making the school the #4 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Earnings of Virginia Tech Mining Engineering Graduates

The median salary of mining engineering students who receive their bachelor's degree at Virginia Tech is $69,045. This is less than $71,308, which is the national average of all mining engineering majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Mining Engineering Student Demographics at Virginia Tech

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the mining engineering majors at Virginia Tech.

Virginia Tech Mining Engineering Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 13 mining engineering majors earned their bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech. Of these graduates, 62% were men and 38% were women. The typical mining engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 19% women. So female students are more repesented at Virginia Tech since its program graduates 19% more women than average.

About 85% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in mining engineering at Virginia Tech 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 Virginia Tech with a bachelor's in mining engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Virginia Tech Mining Engineering Master’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students earned a master's degree in mining engineering from Virginia Tech. About 20% of these graduates were women and the other 80% were men.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Virginia Tech with a master's in mining engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	2
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Virginia Tech also has a doctoral program available in mining engineering. In 2021, 2 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Marine Engineering
• Nuclear Engineering
• Systems Engineering
• Polymer & Plastics Engineering
• Other 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 VA, the home state for Virginia Tech.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Architectural and Engineering Managers	4,030	$164,300

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 Eric T Gunther under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.