School of Mines
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There exist many institutions called School of Mines, generally engineering schools originating in 18th or 19th century industrialization. These schools no longer necessarily teach mining-related topics.
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[edit] Some examples
[edit] Schools of Mining
- The Western Australian School of Mines in Kalgoorlie, Australia
- The Bendigo School of Mines in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
- The Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering in Vancouver, Canada
- The Indian School of Mines in Dhanbad, India
- The Camborne School of Mines in Cornwall, United Kingdom
- The Royal School of Mines in London, United Kingdom
- University of Tehran, Department of Mining Engineering, Tehran, Iran
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Department of mining engineering, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- The Colorado School of Mines in Colorado, United States
- The Mohammadia School of Engineering , Departement of Mineral Engineering, Morocco
- The Montana Tech School of Mines and Engineering in Montana, United States
[edit] Universities offering degrees in mining engineering
[edit] North America
[edit] United States (ABET Accredited Mining Engineering)
- University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Engineering and Mines, Fairbanks, Alaska
- University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
- Colorado School of Mines in Colorado, United States
- University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
- Missouri S&T (Formerly The Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy), Rolla, Missouri
- Montana Tech of The University of Montana (Formerly Montana School of Mines), Butte, MT
- University of Nevada, Reno (Formerly The Mackay School of Mines),--[1] Reno, NV
- New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
- Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Carbondale, IL
- University of Utah, Department of Mining Engineering in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, VA, United States
- West Virginia University, in Morgantown, WVA, United States
[edit] United States (non-ABET Accredited or Other Programs)
- The "School of Mines" is the former name of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University in New York City, which offers a degree in Earth and Environmental Engineering.
- Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, offers a graduate program (MS and PhD) in Mining Engineering
- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in South Dakota, United States offers a degree in Mining Engineering and Managment.
[edit] Canada
- McGill University, Montreal Canada
- The University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada, Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering
- Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
- University of Alberta, School of Mining & Petroleum Engineering [2] in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia
[edit] Europe
- Imperial College London
- the Paris Ecole des Mines
- University of Mining and Technology "TU Bergakademie Freiberg", Freiberg, Germany, the oldest still teaching Academy of Mining in the world, founded in 1765
- Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Faculty of Mining and Geology, Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland
- Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wroclaw University of Technology in Wroclaw, Poland
- The Welsh School of Mines, in Pontypridd, Glamorgan - now the University of Glamorgan
- The Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, in Lisbon, Portugal
- Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Minas de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Helsinki University of Technology in Helsinki, Finland
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Natural Resources, Leuven, Belgium
- Faculty of Mining Engineering and Metallurgy , National Technical University of Athens , Greece
[edit] Africa
- University of Pretoria; Pretoria South Africa
- University of the Witwatersrand; Johannesburg South Africa
- University of Dar-es-salaam; Tanzania East Africa
[edit] South America
- Escola Politécnica - Universidade de São Paulo(USP), São Paulo-SP, Brazil
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Department of mining engineering, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto(EMOP), Minas Gerais, Brazil. It started as an isolated school of mines. When the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto(UFOP), was founded in this city, the School of Mines acted as the seed for the expansion of UFOP.
- University Federal of Pernambuco ( UFPE ), Departament of mining engineering,[3] Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departament of mining engineering, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Departamento de Ingeniería en Minas, Santiago, Chile
- Centro de Minería, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile
- Faculty of Mines, Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Medellín; [4]. It was founded in 1887 by Pedro Nel Ospina.
- University of Chile, Mining Engineering Department, [5], Santiago, Chile
- Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, Faculdade de Engenharia (FaEnge), João Monlevade, Brazil
[edit] Asia
- Indian School of Mines University, Dhanbad, India
- IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
- Banaras Hindu University, Department of Mining Engineering, Varanasi, India
- NIT Raipur, Raipur, India
- Guindy Engineering College, Anna University, Chennai, India
- Kothagudem School of Mines, Kothagudem, India
- University of Tehran, Department of Mining Engineering, Tehran, Iran
- Bengal Engineering & Science University,Howrah, India
- International University of Imam Khomeini,Qazvin, Iran
[edit] Australia
- University of Adelaide, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering
- University of Wollongong
- University of New South Wales, School of Mining Engineering
- University of Queensland, School of Mining Engineering
- University of Ballarat, School of Science and Engineering
