QS World University Rankings by Subject 2019: Engineering - Mineral & Mining

Colorado School of Mines remains the best place in the world to study mineral & mining engineering. Also in the top 10, three Australian universities have made improvements on last year’s ranking. Those institutions are the University of Western Australia (UWA), the University of Queensland (UQ) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

Further down, two Russian universities are ranked this year. The St Petersburg Mining University is ranked just inside the top 20, while the National University of Science and Technology “MISIS” is 42nd.

The QS World University Rankings by Subject are based upon academic reputation, employer reputation and research impact (click here to read the full methodology).

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Interested in other courses besides mineral & mining engineering? The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2019 cover 48 different subjects. Click here to see the full list.