2025 Best General Petroleum Engineering Schools in Louisiana

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.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Petroleum Engineering Schools in Louisiana ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 79 degrees in general petroleum engineering annually.

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Pick Your General Petroleum Engineering Degree Level

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 Best General Petroleum Engineering Schools in Louisiana list to help you make the college decision. If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.

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Best Schools for General Petroleum Engineering in Louisiana

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 Louisiana Schools in General Petroleum Engineering

1

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, LA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

58 General Petroleum Engineering Degrees Awarded

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in general petroleum engineering. Located in the medium-sized city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a degree in general petroleum engineering from Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

2

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, LA

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

It's hard to beat University of Louisiana at Lafayette if you want to pursue a degree in general petroleum engineering. Located in the city of Lafayette, UL Lafayette is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a degree in general petroleum engineering from University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Best General Petroleum Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best General Petroleum Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Mississippi	501	15
West Virginia	410	74

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Rankings in Majors Related to General Petroleum Engineering

General Petroleum Engineering is one of 0 different types of Petroleum Engineering programs to choose from.

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.