Recruiting More Mining Engineers at Montana Tech

For nearly 125 years the Montana Tech Mining Department has produced mining engineers with a particular aptitude for practical application of what they learn, our engineers have a particular knack for getting rock in the box. An important part of that preparation is the industry learned and applied knowledge shared by talented faculty to better prepare them for life in industry after graduation. 

The world needs more Mining Engineers and that is why we created Mining Engineering Outreach and Recruiting Fund.

Raising funds for the Mining Engineering Outreach and Recruiting Fund allows the Mining Engineering Department to increase recruiting scholarship dollars, promote our program with increased outreach, and help expand our online presence through social media.

We are happy to report that increasing our outreach and available recruiting dollars over the past year is bearing positive results. In 2.5 years, we have nearly doubled the size of our undergraduate program (from a low of 32 in Spring 2022) and currently have over 60 students in the program. Our goal is to continue the recruiting efforts that have been successful and leverage the diverse student body in the program to help with those efforts. We now have students from across the US and Canada plus Peru and Indonesia in our undergraduate program again and are proud to boast that the 2023 incoming cohort was 15% female and the 2024 cohort is 36% female.

Please consider making a gift today to Mining Engineering Outreach and Recruiting Fund to invest in the promotion of the department and the recruitment and support of the next generation of Montana Tech Mining Engineers. Please spread the word and share this project on social media, by email and tell your friends!