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2023 Best Value Mining Engineering Schools in Virginia

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$14,174 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$69,045 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Mining Engineering School for You

With 20 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, mining engineering is the #208 most popular major in Virginia.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Mining Engineering Schools in Virginia ranking.

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Mining Engineering Colleges.

Best Mining Engineering School

#1

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA
$14,174 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Virginia Tech the best value school in Virginia for mining engineering students. Located in the small city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Virginia Tech are $14,174 a year. Mining Engineering majors at Virginia Tech take out an average of $26,552 in student loans while working on their egree.

Virginia Tech also made our Best Mining Engineering Schools in Virginia list, coming in at #3.

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Best Value Mining Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Mining Engineering Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kentucky 25
West Virginia 17

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 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.

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