2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Petroleum Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

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General Petroleum Engineering is the 379th most popular major in the country with 1,256 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 193 general petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 general petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Petroleum Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general petroleum engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in general petroleum engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Petroleum Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Petroleum Engineering Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Petroleum Engineering in the Southeast Region

1

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Petroleum Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and it awarded 7 doctorate’s general petroleum engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on General Petroleum Engineering at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

2

Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Petroleum Engineering Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi, and it awarded 15 doctorate’s general petroleum engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

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

Read full report on General Petroleum Engineering at Mississippi State

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Petroleum Engineering

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.