2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for General Petroleum Engineering for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. 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 General Petroleum Engineering for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Petroleum Engineering is the 379th most popular major in the country with 1,256 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 193 general petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general petroleum engineering 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 general petroleum engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for General Petroleum Engineering for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for General Petroleum Engineering for a Master’s”.
Top 1 Best General Petroleum Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southeast Region
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 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southeast Region for General Petroleum Engineering for a Master’s. West Virginia University is a large school located in Morgantown, West Virginia that handed out 7 masters’s general petroleum engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
WVU 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.Among the 26,269 students enrolled at WVU, 1,033 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 458 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,599. During this same period, 66 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
[Read full report on veteran student life at West Virginia University]](/colleges/west-virginia-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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