2022 Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

General Petroleum Engineering is the 263rd most popular major in the country with 1,582 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 242 general petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 general petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general petroleum engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general petroleum engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general petroleum engineering 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.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree general petroleum engineering students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Petroleum Engineering in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia

$26,154 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Virginia University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. This large school is located in Morgantown, West Virginia, and it awarded 5 masters’s general petroleum engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

WVU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best General Petroleum Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at WVU are $26,154.

Read more about General Petroleum Engineering at West Virginia University

#2

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$29,970 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value General Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s general petroleum engineering degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

Louisiana State University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Petroleum Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College are $29,970.

Read full report on General Petroleum Engineering at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Petroleum Engineering (With Aid)

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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