2023 Best Petroleum Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Petroleum Engineering for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Plains States region, there were 122 petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,630 and $26,706 respectively.

This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Petroleum Engineering for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in petroleum engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent petroleum engineering programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the petroleum engineering program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Petroleum Engineering for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Petroleum Engineering for a Master’s”.

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

1

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

796 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Dakota. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Petroleum Engineering for a Master’s list. UND is a fairly large public school situated in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It awarded 16 masters’s petroleum engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our plains states region master’s degree vets studying petroleum engineering list, UND has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Petroleum Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking.Of the 13,615 students enrolled at UND, 796 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 395 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,112. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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

Full University of North Dakota Veteran Student Life Report

2

Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, Missouri

306 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Missouri University of Science and Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Plains States Region for Petroleum Engineering for a Master’s list. Rolla, Missouri is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s petroleum engineering degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our plains states region master’s degree vets studying petroleum engineering list, Missouri University of Science and Technology has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Petroleum Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking.Among the 7,642 students enrolled at Missouri University of Science and Technology, 306 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 185 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,588. To help with additional expenses, 13 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Missouri University of Science and Technology]](/colleges/missouri-university-of-science-and-technology/student-life/veterans/)

• Best Petroleum Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• 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.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• 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.