Program overview
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UAC CODE425300 -
Duration4 years -
Training2 Industry placements
Career opportunities
Career opportunities exist in areas such as:
- Mine production
- Mine management
- Engineering design and technology
- Computer software development
- Geotechnical engineering
- Environmental engineering
- Corporate management
- Merchant banking
- Civil tunnelling
- Quarrying
- Risk management
- Project management
- Education and training
- Consulting
- Mine design
- Financial evaluation
- Feasibility studies
- Geotechnical design
- Environmental assessment
- Government (Inspectors, Policy formulation, Administration)
This spectrum of career paths provides male and female graduates with the flexibility to work in and move between a diverse range of environments and locations: national and international, country and city, surface or underground, outdoors or office. It also accounts for the very low rate of unemployment amongst mining engineers, even in periods of economic downturn.
