2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Petroleum Engineering Major in the Southeast Region
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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Petroleum Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Petroleum Engineering is the 379th most popular major in the country with 1,111 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 169 general petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 general petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Petroleum Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in general petroleum engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general petroleum engineering.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Petroleum Engineering Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree general petroleum engineering students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Petroleum Engineering in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Virginia University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Petroleum Engineering Major in the Southeast Region. Morgantown, West Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s general petroleum engineering degrees to 7 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full West Virginia University General Petroleum Engineering Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Petroleum Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is a large public school situated in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It awarded 11 masters’s general petroleum engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Petroleum Engineering at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Petroleum Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Mississippi State University is a large school located in Mississippi State, Mississippi that handed out 19 masters’s general petroleum engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Mississippi State University 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
- *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.
