2025 Best Petroleum Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region
1College in the Great Lakes Region
35Petroleum Engineering Degrees Awarded
$70,564Avg Early-Career Salary
When it comes to popularity, petroleum engineering sits in the middle of the road, ranking #223 out of 395 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
There was only one school in the Great Lakes Region to review for the 2025 Best Petroleum Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Petroleum Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Petroleum Engineering in the Great Lakes Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the petroleum engineering degree levels they offer.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Petroleum Engineering
Marietta College is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in petroleum engineering. Marietta is a small private not-for-profit college located in the town of Marietta.
Degree recipients from the petroleum engineering degree program at Marietta College earn $11,641 above the average graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
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).
