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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Petroleum Tech Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 434 people earned their degree in petroleum technology/technician, making the major the 780th most popular in the United States.

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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Petroleum Tech Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in petroleum technology/technician. To top this list, a school must have a successful petroleum technology/technician program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Petroleum Tech Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Most Well Attended Petroleum Tech Major for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Petroleum Tech Major for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular 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 Most Well Attended Petroleum Tech Major for a Bachelor’s list. Thibodaux, Louisiana is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s petroleum tech degrees to 25 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on 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 Most Well Attended Petroleum Tech Major for a Bachelor’s list. New Concord, Ohio is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s petroleum tech degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Petroleum Technology/Technician at Muskingum

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.