by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Petroleum Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Petroleum Engineering is the 223rd most popular major in the country with 1,256 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 164 petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $88,574 and $27,110 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 125 petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,089 and $26,296 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Petroleum Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in petroleum engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their petroleum engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 Rocky Mountains 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 rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree petroleum engineering students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montana Technological University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Petroleum Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. This small school is located in Butte, Montana, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s petroleum engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Montana Technological University Petroleum Engineering Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Petroleum Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado School of Mines landed the #2 spot on the list. Colorado School of Mines is a medium-sized school located in Golden, Colorado that handed out 64 bachelors’s petroleum engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Petroleum Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wyoming landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Wyoming is located in Laramie, Wyoming and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 30 bachelors’s petroleum engineering degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%.
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