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Most Popular Mining Engineering Schools in Colorado

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2023 Most Popular Mining Engineering Schools in Colorado

1 College
$71,308 Avg Salary
$25,500 Avg Student Debt

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 Most Popular Mining Engineering Schools in Colorado to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 1 schools in Colorado to see which ones were the most popular programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Mining Engineering program at each school on the list.

The following school tops our list of the Most Popular Mining Engineering Colleges.

Our analysis found Colorado School of Mines to be the most popular school for mining engineering students who want to pursue a degree in Colorado. Mines is a moderately-sized public school located in the large suburb of Golden.

While working on their degree, mining engineering majors at Mines accumulate an average of around $25,500 in student debt.

Read full report on Mining Engineering at Colorado School of Mines

Best Mining Engineering Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Explore all the Most Popular Mining Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Utah 8
Montana 21

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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