2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Petroleum Tech for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
25
Degrees Awarded
$17,300
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly for Petroleum Tech for a Bachelor’s” ranking.
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.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality petroleum technology/technician programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the petroleum technology/technician program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly for Petroleum Tech for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree vets studying petroleum tech.
Top 1 Best Petroleum Technology/Technician Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nicholls State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly for Petroleum Tech 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.
In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree vets studying petroleum tech list, Nicholls State University has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Petroleum Technology/Technician Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking.Among the 6,769 students enrolled at Nicholls State University, 206 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 99 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,222. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Nicholls State University]](/colleges/nicholls-state-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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