Monday, April 16, 2012

Want a High Paying Job?

Study gold mining.

 Students at the Colorado School of Mines are some of the most employable in the country - 94 percent of 2011 graduates from the mining engineering, metallurgy and materials, geological engineering, and geophysics programs have jobs, reports Reuters.

The average starting offer across the four departments was $65,868 a year, well above the $42,569 median that the National Association of Colleges and Employers expects first-time job seekers with college degrees to command in 2012.

With graduation still a month away, "pretty much everyone is sitting on an offer or two,"  Reuters quotes a student as saying, adding that some students were juggling four or five offers.

6 comments:

  1. My son goes to the South Dakota School of Mines in Rapid City. They have 100% placement and if you go into petroleum-related geology, nearly a 6-figure starting salary. He's sitting pretty. Even internships pay $7500 / month ($90,000/yr equivalent).

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  2. Hey i have a master Degree in electrical engineering. I have also wanted to get into the minning industry. Any one out there have advice for me or if its feasible for an electrical engineer with a back groud in Power and distribution to become a mining engineer?

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  3. Well, you might call the Colorado School of Mines or South Dakota School of Mines & Technology and ask for Admissions and pose your question to them. I'll bet they'll say "Sure! Come on over..."

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  4. I hope this isn't a sign that a mining top is coming up like what happened in 1999 and being a Computer Science major.

    And for the sake of prospective students I hope they don't measure "employment" like NALP, the ABA and USNWR does for Law School rankings.

    So far it looks like the 'jobs of the future' are farming and mining. I wonder what Team O has to say about that?

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  5. I hope this isn't a sign that a mining top is coming up like what happened in 1999 and being a Computer Science major.

    And for the sake of prospective students I hope they don't measure "employment" like NALP, the ABA and USNWR does for Law School rankings.

    So far it looks like the 'jobs of the future' are farming and mining. I wonder what Team O has to say about that?

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  6. A good friend of mine graduated from CSM's masters program--petroleum geology--last may. makes $98/yr + benes with Chevron now. It's really the top school for that sort of thing.

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