The main focus area for this major is General Petroleum Engineering. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Petroleum Engineering is a major offered under the engineering program of study at The University of Texas at Austin. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in petroleum engineering, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, whether or not the degree is offered online, and more.
If there’s something special you’re looking for, you can use one of the links below to find it:
In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. In College Factual's most recent rankings for the best schools for petroleum engineering majors, UT Austin came in at #2. This puts it in the top 5% of the country in this field of study. It is also ranked #1 in Texas.
Here are some of the other rankings for UT Austin.
In 2019-2020, the average part-time undergraduate tuition at UT Austin was $1,795 per credit hour for out-of-state students. The average for in-state students was $542 per credit hour. The average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
---|---|---|
Tuition | $11,448 | $40,032 |
Books and Supplies | $714 | $714 |
On Campus Room and Board | $12,286 | $12,286 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $4,480 | $4,480 |
Learn more about UT Austin tuition and fees.
One factor in determining the overall cost in a degree is to consider how much in student loans you’ll have to take out. Petroleum Engineering students who received their bachelor’s degree at UT Austin took out an average of $18,000 in student loans. That is 27% lower than the national average of $24,667.
petroleum engineering who receive their bachelor’s degree from UT Austin make an average of $88,786 a year during the early days of their career. That is 34% higher than the national average of $66,442.
Online degrees for the UT Austin petroleum engineering bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UT Austin Online Learning page.
Women made up around 30.6% of the petroleum engineering students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 17.0%.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 50.0% of the petroleum engineering bachelor’s degrees at UT Austin in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 22%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
---|---|
Asian | 19 |
Black or African American | 3 |
Hispanic or Latino | 10 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 26 |
International Students | 9 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 5 |
Petroleum Engineering students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
---|---|
General Petroleum Engineering | 72 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to petroleum engineering.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
---|---|
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering | 168 |
Architectural Engineering | 34 |
Biomedical Engineering | 131 |
Chemical Engineering | 180 |
Civil Engineering | 144 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.