2024 Best General Petroleum Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region
4Colleges in the Southeast Region
193General Petroleum Engineering Degrees Awarded
A degree in general petroleum engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #379 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Petroleum Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 193 degrees in general petroleum engineering to qualified students.
Choosing a Great General Petroleum Engineering School
The general petroleum engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Petroleum Engineering rankings. For our Best Overall General Petroleum Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
General Petroleum Engineering Rankings by Degree Level
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Best Schools for General Petroleum Engineering in the Southeast Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the general petroleum engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Southeast Region Schools in General Petroleum Engineering
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is a good choice for students interested in a degree in general petroleum engineering. Louisiana State University is a very large public university located in the city of Baton Rouge. A Best Colleges rank of #271 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Louisiana State University is a great university overall.
There were roughly 74 general petroleum engineering students who graduated with this degree at Louisiana State University in the most recent data year.
Mississippi State University is a great choice for students interested in a degree in general petroleum engineering. Mississippi State is a very large public university located in the remote town of Mississippi State. A Best Colleges rank of #284 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Mississippi State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 15 general petroleum engineering students who graduated with this degree at Mississippi State in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat West Virginia University if you want to pursue a degree in general petroleum engineering. WVU is a very large public university located in the city of Morgantown. This university ranks 2nd out of 28 colleges for overall quality in the state of West Virginia.
There were roughly 74 general petroleum engineering students who graduated with this degree at WVU in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Louisiana at Lafayette is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general petroleum engineering. UL Lafayette is a fairly large public university located in the city of Lafayette. This university ranks 9th out of 29 colleges for overall quality in the state of Louisiana.
There were about 30 general petroleum engineering students who graduated with this degree at UL Lafayette in the most recent year we have data available.
General Petroleum Engineering Related Rankings by Major
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Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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The general petroleum engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Petroleum Engineering rankings. For our Best Overall General Petroleum Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
