2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Mining & Petroleum Technology in North Dakota

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mining & Petroleum Tech Major in North Dakota” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 445 people earned their degree in mining and petroleum technology, making the major the 312th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, mining and petroleum technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $54,371 and had an average of $16,130 in loans still to pay off.

Across North Dakota, there were 25 mining and petroleum technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 17 mining and petroleum technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,800 and $19,208 respectively.

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

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

More Ways to Rank Mining & Petroleum Technology Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mining & Petroleum Tech Major in North Dakota” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mining & Petroleum Tech Major in North Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for north dakota associate degree mining & petroleum tech students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Mining & Petroleum Technology in North Dakota

1

Williston State College
Williston, North Dakota

#12 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Williston State College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mining & Petroleum Tech Major in North Dakota. Williston State College is located in Williston, North Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 associates’s mining and petroleum tech degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Mining & Petroleum Technology at Williston State College

2

Bismarck State College
Bismarck, North Dakota

#5 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bismarck State College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mining & Petroleum Tech Major in North Dakota. BSC is a small public school situated in Bismarck, North Dakota. It awarded 12 associates’s mining and petroleum tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Bismarck State College Mining & Petroleum Technology Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Mining & Petroleum Technology in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Mining & Petroleum Technology

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.