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European Mining Course

Established in 1996, leading the world in mining education
Why choose this course?

Enhance your international resource knowledge and skills

  • Join our worldwide alumni network and gain professional contacts
  • Benefit from flexibility with optional modules; enabling personalized learning
  • Enhance your learning with industry guest speakers
  • Enjoy a program taught completely in English
  • Earn an MSc from renowned European Universities
You want to study abroad?

Adventure is the best way to learn.

You want to gather exciting international experience at three leading universities and meet people?

Discover the world with like-minded students and university staff.

You want to change the world?

With a growing world population and increasing global welfare, the demand for most metals and minerals is increasing. At the same time, metal and material markets are not always predictable, making the challenge to identify and extract resources within economies of scale even more complex. Adding to this complexity, awareness of environmental issues is also growing and the world expects resources to be extracted in a responsible and sustainable manner. It will be up to the resource specialists of the future to operate successfully in this challenging environment.

In future, graduates working in the resources sector are expected to have technical skills as well as social intelligence, adaptive thinking and cross-cultural competencies. They have to have language skills, be creative and self-motivated, be champions of research and receptors of innovations.

You want to work closely with industry and in international teams?

Well, then you are on the right track here.

What is the European Mining Course

The European Mining Course (EMC) is an triple-degree M.Sc. program hosted by three leading technical universities in Europe:

  • RWTH Aachen University (Institute of Mineral Resources Engineering (MRE)) ,
  • Aalto University (Helsinki) , and
  • Montanuniversitat Leoben.

Alongside with students of these three universities, there are numerous guests from Europe and from all over the world participating in the EMC to explore the international world of mining within their master studies.

The EMC covers every aspect of the life cycle of mineral resources. It is designed to provide a so lid understanding of the global mining industry and takes a life-cycle approach by covering the entire mining value chain. It offers a state-of-the-art technical basis in resource modelling, mine design and economic evaluation. Technical knowledge is supplemented with topics on business economics, ethics, environmental engineering, and a clearly defined and structured program for the management of health, safety, and environment.

But there is more to the EMC than just studying abroad! Through guest lectures from industry, excursions, and industrial projects, you get a direct insight into the international mining industry and gather valuable contacts for your professional future.

The EMC aims to train professionals who will be the future decision-makers in the mineral resources and associated engineering trade, with a strong vision of the future developments in this industry. EMC supports the development of students into adaptive, innovative, and entrepreneurially oriented engineers capable of identifying the best approach to obtain optimal value from mineral ore deposits.

European Mining Course

Start

Application period: Jan - Febr 2024
Start: September at Aalto University, Helsinki

University

English

Entry requirements:
Profound English skills , BSc in the engineering or geoscience disciplines, such as Mining Engineering, Resource Engineering, Geology, Earth Sciences, Environmental Engineering

fees vary by nationality/
four semesters/
full time

University

Aalto University on Campus

University

Triple Degree Program M.SC.

ECTS: 120

European Mining Course

Start

Application period: Jan - Febr 2024
Start: September at Aalto University, Helsinki

University

English

University

Aalto University on Campus

University

Triple Degree Program M.SC.

ECTS: 120

The European Mining Course (EMC) is an triple-degree master program by Aalto University (Finland), RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and Montanuniversität Leoben (Austria). Students spent one semester at each university and prepare their master thesis in close cooperation with industry partners. Graduates of the EMC have meaningful job opportunities in all parts of the world and at home to help providing the world with responsible mineral resources.
Entry requirements: Profound English skills , BSc in the engineering or geoscience disciplines, such as Mining Engineering, Resource Engineering, Geology, Earth Sciences, Environmental Engineering

fees vary by nationality/
four semesters/
full time

Career Opportunities

Given the worldwide demand for professionals in mining and minerals engineering and management, graduates of EMC have promising career opportunities. EMC graduates will be qualified to work for:

  • Mining companies and companies engaged in
  • minerals and metals processing technology
  • Engineering and consulting firms
  • Companies working on ore deposits and
  • integrated production
  • Market leaders in efficient mining
  • Aggregates companies
  • Government agencies
  • Knowledge institution s, research institutes and think-tanks

Living in different cities

The EMC program is inherently international because the studies take place at three different universities in three different countries. The program provides its students with a profound experience of working, studying and living in multiple countries in an international environment. Together with the international group of students you can explore the cultural and natural offers in the three cities and make many great experiences while living abroad.

Finland 's national parks and lakes invite to day trips, the old town of Helsinki holds exciting places and not to be neglected are the relaxing evenings in one of the many Finnish saunas.

Aachen offers nice evenings with its beautiful old town and the famous cathedral and is located directly at the foothills of the Eifel national park.

Leoben is a student town from where you can get to the nearby mountains for hiking in the summer or skiing in the winter.

Engage with industry

The EMC offers direct collaboration with industry and sees it as vital to its success. Working together on projects and understanding the needs helps to develop yourself towards a well-equipped future resource specialist.

Industry partners of the EMC actively support the education and will provide guest lectures or challenge you with group projects. Companies will also invite you from time to time for a get-together and enable you to directly learn about a potential future employer.

The EMC is certainly proud of its long-standing relationships with its industry partners, who host company and site visits and offer internships and work placements for the EMC students.

The past has shown that this relationship continues after graduation with many of our 800+ graduates joining our industry partners and building their careers with them.

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