2025 Best Mining & Petroleum Technology Schools in the Southeast Region
2Colleges in the Southeast Region
141Mining & Petroleum Tech Degrees Awarded
$58,103Avg Early-Career Salary
Mining & Petroleum Technology degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #312 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Mining & Petroleum Technology Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 141 degrees in mining & petroleum technology annually.
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Best Schools for Mining & Petroleum Technology in the Southeast Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the mining & petroleum tech degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Southeast Region Schools in Mining & Petroleum Tech
It is hard to beat Nicholls State University if you want to pursue a degree in mining & petroleum technology. Nicholls State University is a medium-sized public university located in the city of Thibodaux.
Students who receive their degree from the mining & petroleum tech program earn an average of $56,056 for their early career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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