2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Petroleum Technology/Technician in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Petroleum Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking.

Petroleum Technology/Technician is the 726th most popular major in the country with 579 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 210 petroleum technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 38 petroleum technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent petroleum technology/technician programs, but they also cost less that 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Petroleum Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Petroleum Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Petroleum Technology/Technician in the Southeast Region

#1

Nicholls State University

Thibodaux, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$12,247 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Petroleum Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Nicholls State University landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Thibodaux, Louisiana, and it awarded 38 bachelors’s petroleum tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Nicholls State University also made our “Best Petroleum Technology/Technician Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Nicholls State University is $12,247 for southeast region bachelor’s degree petroleum tech students.

Full Nicholls State University Petroleum Technology/Technician Report

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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.

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

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