2022 Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,582 people earned their degree in petroleum engineering, making the major the 180th most popular in the United States. 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 Plains States region, there were 138 petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,967 and $25,086 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in petroleum engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great petroleum engineering programs and cost less that 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Petroleum Engineering in the Plains States Region

#1

University of North Dakota

Grand Forks, North Dakota

#2 in overall quality

$18,326 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

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 Master’s in the Plains States Region. UND is a public institution located in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UND did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Petroleum Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of North Dakota are $18,326, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full UND Petroleum Engineering Report

#2

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Rolla, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$30,943 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Missouri University of Science and Technology. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region. Located in Rolla, Missouri, this medium-sized public school awarded 17 degrees to qualified masters’s petroleum engineering students in 2019-2020.

Missouri University of Science and Technology did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Petroleum Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Missouri University of Science and Technology are $30,943, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Petroleum Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology

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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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