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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Petroleum Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $48-$75k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Petroleum Engineering is the 180th most popular major in the country with 1,582 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, petroleum engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $66,730 and had an average of $24,667 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 13 petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,500 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great petroleum engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the petroleum engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Petroleum Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Saint Francis University

Loretto, Pennsylvania
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Francis University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Saint Francis is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Loretto, Pennsylvania. It awarded 3 bachelors’s petroleum engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Saint Francis not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Petroleum Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Saint Francis is $25,839 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree petroleum engineering students whose families make $48-$75k.

The low student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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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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