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2023 Best Value Mining Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$27,482 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Mining Engineering School for You

Mining Engineering is the #302 most popular major in the country with 314 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Mining Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which programs offered the best value experiences for mining engineering students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Mining Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Mining Engineering Colleges.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Mining Engineering

$15,240 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Southern Illinois University Carbondale to be the best value school for mining engineering students who want to pursue a degree in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the small city of Carbondale, SIUC is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at SIUC are $15,240 a year.

Full Mining Engineering at Southern Illinois University Carbondale Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Michigan Technological University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Mining Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the remote town of Houghton, Michigan Tech is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

Michigan Tech undergraduate students pay an average of $39,723 in tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Michigan Tech also is in the top 5% of our Best Mining Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.

Read full report on Mining Engineering at Michigan Technological University

Best Mining Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best mining engineering schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 3
Illinois 2

More Mining Engineering Rankings in the Great Lakes Region

One of 40 majors within the area of study, mining engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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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