Everyone talks about this, when you graduate, depending on your major, I've heard that many students have companies hire them before they've finished their last semester. And you usually get paid really well if you've proved you learned the material for your major.

The school does have a high tuition rate for out of state students which is the only draw back for most students. The pay out of college though has an average of 67K a year starting salary. So although the school might have a price tag on it the pay coming out will be a great reward.

The degree programs are ranked best in the nation

Excellent. You pay 15,000 per semester, but the courses are so rigorous you will feel pressured as if at an Ivy League school. In fact, graduates from Mines on average make more for a starting salary than Harvard students do. Mines is the Harvard of the West.

Even though it is expensive (to me) because I am from out of state, Mines ranked on the top ten colleges that grant more bang for their buck than Harvard. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/12-colleges-job-payoff-harvard/story?id=17273504#.UGyiCaOcenC I expect to get a job earning more than 70k a year when I graduate.