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2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Petroleum Engineering in North Dakota (With Aid)

1 Ranked Colleges
7 Degrees Awarded
$18,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in North Dakota For Those Getting Aid

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 “Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in North Dakota For Those Getting Aid” 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 North Dakota, there were 45 petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,300 and $23,000 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,500 and $84,163 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality 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 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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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in North Dakota For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in North Dakota For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in North Dakota For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Petroleum Engineering in North Dakota (With Aid)

#1

University of North Dakota

Grand Forks, North Dakota
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Dakota. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in North Dakota For Those Getting Aid. University of North Dakota is a fairly large school located in Grand Forks, North Dakota that handed out 7 doctorate’s petroleum engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UND also took the #1 spot in our “Best Petroleum Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in North Dakota” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of North Dakota are $18,326.

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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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