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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Mining & Petroleum Tech Major in North Dakota for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 “Most Well Attended Mining & Petroleum Tech Major in North Dakota for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in mining and petroleum technology. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in mining and petroleum technology.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Mining & Petroleum Tech Major in North Dakota for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Mining & Petroleum Tech Major in North Dakota for an Associate”.

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

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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 #1 for the Most Well Attended Mining & Petroleum Tech Major in North Dakota for an Associate. Bismarck, North Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s mining and petroleum tech degrees to 12 students in 2020-2021.

Full Bismarck State College Mining & Petroleum Technology Report

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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 #2 for the Most Well Attended Mining & Petroleum Tech Major in North Dakota for an Associate. Williston State College is a small school located in Williston, North Dakota that handed out 5 associates’s mining and petroleum tech degrees in 2020-2021.

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

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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

• *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.