2025 Best General Petroleum Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region
4Colleges in the Southeast Region
169General Petroleum Engineering Degrees Awarded
A degree in general petroleum engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #379 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for general petroleum engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 169 degrees in general petroleum engineering annually.
Choosing a Great General Petroleum Engineering School
The general petroleum engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Petroleum Engineering rankings. For our Best Overall General Petroleum Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
General Petroleum Engineering Rankings by Degree Level
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Best Schools for General Petroleum Engineering 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 general petroleum engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Southeast Region Schools in General Petroleum Engineering
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is a good decision for students interested in a degree in general petroleum engineering. Louisiana State University is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Baton Rouge. A Best Colleges rank of #357 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Louisiana State University is a great university overall.
There were roughly 58 general petroleum engineering students who graduated with this degree at Louisiana State University in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat West Virginia University if you wish to pursue a degree in general petroleum engineering. WVU is a very large public university located in the small city of Morgantown. A Best Colleges rank of #492 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means WVU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 71 general petroleum engineering students who graduated with this degree at WVU in the most recent data year.
Mississippi State University is a good option for students pursuing a degree in general petroleum engineering. Mississippi State is a very large public university located in the town of Mississippi State. This university ranks 2nd out of 24 schools for overall quality in the state of Mississippi.
There were approximately 19 general petroleum engineering students who graduated with this degree at Mississippi State in the most recent data year.
University of Louisiana at Lafayette is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in general petroleum engineering. UL Lafayette is a large public university located in the city of Lafayette. This university ranks 7th out of 30 colleges for overall quality in the state of Louisiana.
There were about 21 general petroleum engineering students who graduated with this degree at UL Lafayette in the most recent year we have data available.
General Petroleum Engineering Related Rankings by Major
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Notes and References
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).
The general petroleum engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Petroleum Engineering rankings. For our Best Overall General Petroleum Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
