Shape the future of mining – join our internationally renowned programmes
Explore our internationally recognised mining and mineral education programmes and take the first step towards a dynamic career in a globally expanding industry.
Our programmes offer you a unique opportunity to specialise in fields such as mining engineering, sustainable mineral extraction, and exploration. Your studies will have a strong emphasis on practical skills and research-driven teaching.
Benefit from the expertise of experienced faculty, access state-of-the-art laboratories and technology centres, and prepare to tackle future challenges in sustainable mining and resource management. Explore our programmes, career pathways, and what makes our offerings exceptional – and find out how you can start your journey in the mining and mineral industry today.
Our programmes in mining
- Bachelor Programme in Mineral Resource Engineering
The sustainable use of natural resources is crucial to the green transition we are facing. With this unique education, you will learn to meet the demand for minerals and metals for tomorrow's products. The program is offered in collaboration with leading companies in the industry. - Master programme in Applied Environmental Geoochemistry
Discover Applied Environmental Geochemistry: Learn about element occurrence, mobility, and pollution effects. Here, you will understand the relationships between the environment and its elements and how to positively impact it by developing solutions to reduce environmental pollution. - Master Programme in Civil Engineering, with specialization in mining and Geotechnical Engineering
This programme offers you the chance to be part of the development for future infrastructure and mining operations. The use of soil and rock materials have a wide range of applications, and this programme provides you with sought-after skills that can open doors to global career opportunities. - Master programme in Exploration Geoscience
As our society moves away from fossil fuels, this program equips you with cutting-edge knowledge and skills in exploration geoscience that are highly sought after. Global exploration for natural resources, such as metals and minerals, is of great necessity in the ongoing societal transition.
Meet your teachers
Our researchers become your teachers. The Swedish School of Mines is an initiative to deliver skills for the entire mineral and metal value chain that the world demands through the green transition.
Tobias Bauer is Assistant Professor in the research subject Ore Geology.
With electrification and the green transition, the demand for critical metals such as batteries is increasing rapidly
Lina Hällström is Associate Senior Lecturer in the research group for applied Geochemistry.
“In my work I evaluate the new concept "Remining". This means the possibility of cleaning up historically old sins of the mining industry by creating new mines from the old waste. This will remove pollution from nature and at the same time extract metals in Sweden.”
Christina Wanhainen is Professor in Ore Geology.
“The human need for metals and minerals is increasing, in line with an increasing world population and the green transition that is now taking place. Renewable energy systems, such as wind turbines and solar cells, require a lot of base metals and also a number of critical metals, i.e. metals that are of great economic importance but are not produced in the EU.”
Nils Jansson is Associate Professor in Ore Geology.
“There is up to twelve times more copper in renewable energy systems compared to traditional systems. An electric car, for example, contains more than three times as much copper as a petrol car, and therefore the demand for copper will increase for a long time to come. The green transition thus implies an increased need for all kinds of metals, both base and critical metals.”
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