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2022 Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

9 Ranked Colleges
511 Degrees Awarded
$16,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 1,582 people earned their degree in general petroleum engineering, making the major the 263rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 765 general petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 511 general petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 9 colleges that offered a degree 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree general petroleum engineering students with aid.

Top 9 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Petroleum Engineering in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas of the Permian Basin. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. This medium-sized school is located in Odessa, Texas, and it awarded 39 bachelors’s general petroleum engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UT Permian Basin also made our “Best General Petroleum Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #5. The yearly cost to attend UT Permian Basin is $10,092 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general petroleum engineering students with aid.

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#1 in overall quality

Out of the 9 schools in the Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #2 spot on the list. Austin, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general petroleum engineering degrees to 72 students in 2019-2020.

UT Austin not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Petroleum Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $18,023 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Petroleum Engineering students with aid per year to attend The University of Texas at Austin.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about General Petroleum Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin

#3

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Tech University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Texas Tech is located in Lubbock, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 50 bachelors’s general petroleum engineering degrees to qualified students.

Texas Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best General Petroleum Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Texas Tech is $17,571 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Petroleum Engineering students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about General Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. College Station, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general petroleum engineering degrees to 138 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texas A&M College Station, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best General Petroleum Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $19,057 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general petroleum engineering students with aid per year to attend Texas A&M College Station.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M College Station

#5

University of Houston

Houston, Texas
#7 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Houston. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. University of Houston is a large school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 61 bachelors’s general petroleum engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UH not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #7 on our “Best General Petroleum Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend UH is $12,838 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general petroleum engineering students with aid.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

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#8 in overall quality

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid ranking. New Mexico Tech is a small public school situated in Socorro, New Mexico. It awarded 18 bachelors’s general petroleum engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

New Mexico Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #8 on our “Best General Petroleum Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for New Mexico Tech is $14,595 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Petroleum Engineering students with aid.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on General Petroleum Engineering at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

#9 in overall quality

With a ranking of #7, Texas A&M University - Kingsville did quite well on the 2022 Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. This medium-sized school is located in Kingsville, Texas, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s general petroleum engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas A&M Kingsville also took the #9 spot in our “Best General Petroleum Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $13,778 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Petroleum Engineering students with aid per year to attend Texas A&M University - Kingsville.

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#6 in overall quality

With a ranking of #8, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus did quite well on the 2022 Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. Norman, Oklahoma is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general petroleum engineering degrees to 72 students in 2019-2020.

University of Oklahoma did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best General Petroleum Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Oklahoma Norman Campus is $21,145 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general petroleum engineering students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about General Petroleum Engineering at University of Oklahoma Norman Campus

#9

University of Tulsa

Tulsa, Oklahoma
#4 in overall quality

University of Tulsa did quite well in the 2022 Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid ranking, coming in at #9. Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 49 degrees to qualified bachelors’s general petroleum engineering students in 2019-2020.

University of Tulsa also took the #4 spot in our “Best General Petroleum Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Tulsa is $20,936 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Petroleum Engineering students with aid.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low student loan default rate of 2.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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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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