You'll become a highly skilled mining engineer as you learn advanced concepts and skills across a range of mining engineering subjects. You can also focus on an area of interest with a research component. Plus, you can be confident knowing that students rated our teaching quality and their overall satisfaction with our post graduate engineering courses above average compared to other Australian universities. We'll guide you through the fundamental engineering concepts at an advanced level, explore technical systems, apply the visualisation of three-dimensional space and discover your responsibilities in relation to the environment and sustainable development. Once you graduate, you can look forward to working as a consultant, a mine planning engineer, in feasibility studies and more.

Career Opportunities Mining Engineers are in high demand in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region. The broad education offered by the School of Science, IT and Engineering enables students to find employment in a wide range of resource related industries, including consulting. Mining Engineers work in all parts of the industry from feasibility studies through to mine design, to managing actual production and sales. Our graduates are found working in positions including: Graduate Engineers, Mine planning engineers, mine managers, Ventilation officers and engineers, geotechnical roles, consultants and many other roles.