Student Life


First-year students will begin their Mines journey this week with the M Climb, the time-honored tradition of hiking Mount Zion and adding their 10-pound rocks to the iconic M.
Colorado School of Mines has more than doubled its on-campus housing for graduate and upper-division undergraduate students with the opening of the newly redeveloped and renovated Village at Mines Park.
Fever Dream, built and flown by the Mines Rocket Club, reached 43,476 feet above California's Mojave Desert.
Launched in 2024, Helluva Welcome brings together multiple spring and summer orientation programs at Mines into a single weeklong experience for all incoming students right before the start of the fall semester.
More than 300 employers are on campus Jan. 28-29 to recruit Mines students and recent alumni for jobs, internships and more.