2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Petroleum Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

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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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $79,087 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Petroleum Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in petroleum engineering. 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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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Petroleum Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Petroleum Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Petroleum Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado

#1 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado School of Mines. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Petroleum Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in Golden, Colorado, this medium-sized public school awarded 8 degrees to qualified doctorate’s petroleum engineering students in 2020-2021.

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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Full Mines Petroleum Engineering Report

2

University of Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming

#16 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wyoming. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Petroleum Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. This fairly large school is located in Laramie, Wyoming, and it awarded 8 doctorate’s petroleum engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Petroleum Engineering at UW

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Petroleum Engineering

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.