BA/BS in Mining Engineering is a bachelor's degree in Mining & Oil Engineering programme taught at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. The programme runs for 4 years, delivered on campus. Tuition for international students is CAD 59,284 per year (CAD 12,153 per year for local students).
This bachelor's program in mining engineering at Queen's University's Smith Engineering covers every stage of a mining project, from resource discovery through to bringing a product to market, building on foundational electrical, civil, geological, mechanical, and chemical engineering concepts. Coursework addresses the economic extraction of natural resources alongside social responsibility, environmental protection, energy and climate considerations, and workplace health and safety. In their final year, students complete a thesis in which they design and analyze an underground or open-pit mine, carry out a feasibility study of a process plant, or evaluate mechanical requirements for a mining operation, and can choose an upper-year specialization in mining engineering, mineral processing and environmental engineering, or mine mechanical engineering. An internship placement with industry is available between study terms, and the program includes field trips to operating mines. Teaching is delivered on campus at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. It suits students aiming for careers in the minerals industry and related environmental and technological fields.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Mining Engineering is a discipline within Smith Engineering's common first-year program: applicants apply to general engineering and are guaranteed their program of choice, including Mining Engineering, at the end of first year. Queen's engineering-specific Ontario prerequisites require five 4U courses: English 4U, Advanced Functions 4U, Calculus and Vectors 4U, Chemistry 4U and Physics 4U, with the admission average calculated from these five courses. Applicants who are not Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or persons registered under the Indian Act are assessed at the international rate and must meet Queen's English-language proficiency requirement: IELTS Academic 6.5 with no band below 6.0, TOEFL iBT 88 with a minimum of 20 in each of Writing, Speaking, Reading and Listening, Duolingo English Test 120, PTE Academic 60, CAEL 70 with no band below 60, Cambridge C1 Advanced 175, or LanguageCert Academic 70.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Applicants to Queen's apply through OUAC; for Fall 2027 entry the application period opens October 1, 2026, with a November 20, 2026 recommended date to preserve access to the Major Admission Award application. First-year programmes in Commerce, Health Sciences, and Nursing close February 1, 2027, with a mandatory supplementary application due February 15, 2027; all other first-year programmes close March 1, 2027. The final deadline to submit supporting documents, including transcripts and English-proficiency test scores, is March 31, 2027. Queen's publishes the same OUAC-based deadlines for domestic and international applicants and does not describe admission as rolling. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
