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2022 Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k

4 Ranked Colleges
221 Degrees Awarded
$18,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Petroleum Engineering is the 263rd most popular major in the country with 1,582 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 242 general petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 221 general petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general petroleum engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general petroleum engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general petroleum engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Petroleum Engineering (Income $75-$110k) in the Southeast Region

#1

West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Morgantown, West Virginia, and it awarded 87 bachelors’s general petroleum engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree general petroleum engineering students whose families make $75-$110k list, WVU has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best General Petroleum Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend WVU is $16,189 for southeast region bachelor’s degree general petroleum engineering students whose families make $75-$110k.

Full WVU General Petroleum Engineering Report

#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k. University of Louisiana at Lafayette is located in Lafayette, Louisiana and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 47 bachelors’s general petroleum engineering degrees to qualified students.

UL Lafayette also took the #4 spot in our “Best General Petroleum Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $15,202 for southeast region bachelor’s degree general petroleum engineering students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Read more about General Petroleum Engineering at University of Louisiana at Lafayette

#3

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, Mississippi
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Mississippi State University is a public institution located in Mississippi State, Mississippi. The school has a large population, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree general petroleum engineering students whose families make $75-$110k list, Mississippi State has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best General Petroleum Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Mississippi State is $19,558 for southeast region bachelor’s degree general petroleum engineering students whose families make $75-$110k.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on General Petroleum Engineering at Mississippi State

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College landed the #4 spot on the list. Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general petroleum engineering degrees to 80 students in 2019-2020.

Louisiana State University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Petroleum Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is $20,965 for southeast region bachelor’s degree general petroleum engineering students whose families make $75-$110k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College General Petroleum Engineering Report

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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