by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Petroleum Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 1,256 people earned their degree in petroleum engineering, making the major the 223rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, petroleum engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $83,917 and had an average of $25,780 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 31 petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in petroleum engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Petroleum Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree petroleum engineering students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Petroleum Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region list. UAF is located in Fairbanks, Alaska and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s petroleum engineering degrees to qualified students.
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