2022 Best Value Petroleum Tech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Petroleum Tech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 579 people earned their degree in petroleum technology/technician, making the major the 726th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 50 petroleum technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 20 petroleum technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,069 and $19,434 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality petroleum technology/technician programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the petroleum technology/technician program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Petroleum Tech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Petroleum Tech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Petroleum Tech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Petroleum Technology/Technician in the Plains States Region

#1

Bismarck State College

Bismarck, North Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$9,420 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bismarck State College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Petroleum Tech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region list. Bismarck State College is a public institution located in Bismarck, North Dakota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 7 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

BSC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Petroleum Technology/Technician Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $9,420 for Plains States Region Associate Degree Petroleum Tech students per year to attend Bismarck State College.

Read more about Petroleum Technology/Technician at Bismarck State College

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jeffrey Beall.

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