2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Petroleum Technology/Technician

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Petroleum Tech Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Petroleum Technology/Technician is the 780th most popular major in the country with 434 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 petroleum technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Petroleum Tech Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in petroleum technology/technician. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their petroleum technology/technician program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The petroleum tech school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Petroleum Tech Major”.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Petroleum Tech Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree petroleum tech students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Petroleum Technology/Technician

1

Nicholls State University
Thibodaux, Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nicholls State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Petroleum Tech Major list. This medium-sized school is located in Thibodaux, Louisiana, and it awarded 25 bachelors’s petroleum tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Petroleum Technology/Technician at Nicholls State University

2

Muskingum University
New Concord, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Muskingum University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Petroleum Tech Major list. Located in New Concord, Ohio, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s petroleum tech students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Petroleum Technology/Technician at Muskingum University

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.