2024 Best Mining & Petroleum Technology Schools in Illinois
1College in Illinois
11Mining & Petroleum Tech Degrees Awarded
$55,136Avg Early-Career Salary
Mining & Petroleum Technology degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #312 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
There was only one school in Illinois to review for the 2024 Best Mining & Petroleum Technology Schools in Illinois ranking.
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Best Schools for Mining & Petroleum Technology in Illinois
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the mining & petroleum tech degrees they offer, see the list below.
Lewis and Clark Community College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in mining & petroleum technology. Located in the small suburb of Godfrey, Lewis and Clark Community College is a public college with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their degree from the mining & petroleum tech program state that they receive average early career wages of $55,136.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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