BA/BS in B.E. Mining Engineering

Mining engineering teaching at Yangon Technological University grew out of a profession first recognised in Myanmar's higher education in 1927, though no students were admitted at that stage. The department itself was formally established in 1954, and its first graduates received their degrees in 1957. Over the decades the course was lengthened from four years to five, in 1964 the department relocated to RIT, and the award was renamed Bachelor of Engineering a year later. After a pause, undergraduate classes began again in 2012. Study opens with a common first year shared by all engineering fields, with semesters of fifteen weeks. Mining-specific subjects occupy the later years. Vacation periods are used for practical work, including a four-week in-house block on English and computing, and a separate four-week period of industrial training.