2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Petroleum Tech for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$17,300
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Petroleum Tech for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Petroleum Technology/Technician is the 780th most popular major in the country with 434 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 171 petroleum technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 petroleum technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great petroleum technology/technician programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the petroleum technology/technician program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Petroleum Tech for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Petroleum Tech for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree vets studying petroleum tech.
Top 1 Best Petroleum Technology/Technician Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Nicholls State University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for Petroleum Tech for a Bachelor’s. Thibodaux, Louisiana is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s petroleum tech degrees to 25 students in 2020-2021.
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.Among the 6,769 students enrolled at Nicholls State University, 206 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 99 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,222. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Nicholls State University]](/colleges/nicholls-state-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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
- *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.
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