DETAIL OF CLASSIFICATION ITEM

Classification: International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 97) - FIELDS

Abbreviation: ISCED97_OBORY Version: 1 Validity: 01.01.2008 - 09.09.9999 Family: Education

Language version: EN

Classification level: 3

Item: 544 - Mining and extraction

Item's explanatory note:

Mining and extraction (Manufacturing and processing) is the study of planning,
developing, assessing and directing the extraction of minerals, oil and gas from the
earth. Programmes with the following main content are classified here:

Coal mining
Mineral technology
Oil and gas extraction
Raw material extraction

Exclusions:

Study of metallurgical engineering is excluded from this field and included in 521
‘Mechanics and metal work’
Study of geology is excluded from this field and included in field 443 ‘Earth science’.

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Correspondences:
International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 97) - FIELDS - level 2 - Narrow fields	54	Manufacturing and processing