2023 Best Value Mining Engineering Schools in Colorado
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Mining Engineering School for You
With 41 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, mining engineering is the #159 most popular major in Colorado.
Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Mining Engineering Schools in Colorado to help you in your search for the best school for you.
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.
Best Mining Engineering School
Our 2023 rankings named Colorado School of Mines the best value school in Colorado for mining engineering students. Mines is a moderately-sized public school located in the suburb of Golden.
Mines undergraduate students pay an average of $19,538 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Mining Engineering majors at Mines take out an average of $25,500 in student loans while working on their egree.
Mines not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Mining Engineering Schools in Colorado list.
Request InformationBest Value Mining Engineering Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
Explore all the Best Value Mining Engineering Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.
State | Degrees Awarded |
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Utah | 8 |
Montana | 21 |
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Mining Engineering Related Majors for Mining Engineering
One of 40 majors within the area of study, mining engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Majors Related to Mining Engineering
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Mechanical Engineering | 46,178 |
Electrical Engineering | 28,844 |
Civil Engineering | 21,388 |
Computer Engineering | 17,987 |
Chemical Engineering | 12,917 |
Notes and References
*These values are for the top school 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.