Universities Where Mining Engineering is Best Offered As a Programme in South Africa

Mining Engineering is one of the many engineering disciplines on offer at some of the universities in South Africa. Some, in the sense that not all universities in South Africa offer it as a programme.

This page has identified those universities that run the programme for you, so you don't need to be wasting your time on searching Google.

Mining Engineering is an engineering discipline which deal in the exploration of mineral resources from the earth using different technology and techniques. Mining engineer perform role of planning, exploitation and excavation of mineral resource from the earth.

Mining Engineering is available at just five of about forty universities in South Africa and they are listed below

List of Universities in South Africa that Offer Mining Engineering as A Programme

University of Witwatersrand (WITS)
University of Johannesburg (UJ)
University of Pretoria (UP)
University of South Africa (UNISA)
University of Venda offers the programme as Mining and Environmental Geology

The programme at all these universities are accredited by the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) and therefore recognised in America and about fifteen countries of the world.

Mining Engineering at Witwatersrand University, the Best

If World University Ranking data provided by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) is anything to go by then University of Witwatersrand is the best where Mining Engineering can be offered as a programme Africa.

The QS World University Ranking by Subject in 2019 says Mining Engineering at Witwatersrand University was the 15th best in the world. It is the only African Universities ranked among top best fifty in the world. It was revealed that mining engineering programme at the university is dated back to about 130 years ago.

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