The Colorado School of Mines in the US has been ranked as the world’s best university for the study of Mineral and Mining Engineering, in what is the first-ever global ranking for this subject.
In second place for Mining Engineering is MIT, which is top in the tables of the four other Engineering disciplines QS rank as part of their global analysis of higher education. Completing the top three is its compatriot, Stanford University.
This year’s Mining Engineering ranking features the world’s top 100 places to study the subject. The most-featured country in the ranking is the US which takes six of the top-20 places, and 24 places overall – nearly one-quarter. The Universities of Cambridge and Oxford are also in the top five.
The best university for the subject outside these countries is Switzerland’s ETH Zurich, which ranks eighth worldwide. It is closely followed by Asia’s best university for the subject, the University of Hong Kong, which is ninth.
