2022 Best Value Petroleum Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

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 “Best Value Petroleum Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Petroleum Technology/Technician is the 726th most popular major in the country with 579 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 210 petroleum technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 38 petroleum technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent petroleum technology/technician programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the petroleum technology/technician program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The petroleum tech school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Petroleum Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k”.

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Best Value Petroleum Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree petroleum tech students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Petroleum Technology/Technician (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Nicholls State University

Thibodaux, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$9,968 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nicholls State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Petroleum Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Nicholls State University is a public institution located in Thibodaux, Louisiana. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 38 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Nicholls State University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Petroleum Technology/Technician Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Nicholls State University is $9,968 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Petroleum Tech students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full Nicholls State University Petroleum Technology/Technician Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Petroleum Technology/Technician (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jeffrey Beall.

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