Who tends to enrol in Mining Engineering?
The program tends to attracts students from a diverse range of backgrounds, many with a strong interest in engineering and having a solid academic background as illustrated in the graph shown below. in recent years, the student intake has typically seen 50% of students with a UAI in the mid to high 90’s. While the industry used to have the perception of being male dominated the actual situation has changed especially over the past ten years with mining companies wanting to achieve a balance in their workforce. This change is reflected in the student intake with on average around 16% of students being female and who have no more difficulty in gaining graduate employment than the rest of the student cohort. Interestingly, the program attracts a significant number of people with an interest in music and the arts. While many students live in the Sydney urban region, a significant proportion of students come from country areas, particularly from the NSW Central and North coast and from the
