2025 Best Petroleum Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools

If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in petroleum engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #104 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Petroleum Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 106 doctor's degrees in petroleum engineering during the <nil> academic year.

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Choosing a Great Petroleum Engineering School for Your Doctor's Degree

The petroleum engineering doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality petroleum engineering program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on petroleum engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other petroleum engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt petroleum engineering students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized petroleum engineering related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for petroleum engineering students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Petroleum Engineering Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Petroleum Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Petroleum Engineering in the United States

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in petroleum engineering.

Top Schools for a Doctorate in Petroleum Engineering

1

Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX

12 Annual Graduates

Texas A&M University - College Station is a good option for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in petroleum engineering. Located in the city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University - College Station

2

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

16 Annual Graduates

The University of Texas at Austin is a wonderful option for individuals interested in a doctor's degree in petroleum engineering. Located in the large city of Austin, UT Austin is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in petroleum engineering from The University of Texas at Austin

3

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, ND

13 Annual Graduates

University of North Dakota is a great choice for students interested in a doctor's degree in petroleum engineering. Located in the small city of Grand Forks, UND is a public university with a large student population.More information about a doctorate in petroleum engineering from University of North Dakota

Petroleum Engineering by Region

View the Best Petroleum Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Petroleum Engineering Related Rankings by Major

Petroleum Engineering is one of 41 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.

Petroleum Engineering Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Petroleum Engineering	106

Majors Similar to Petroleum Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	2,178
Mechanical Engineering	1,842
Biomedical Engineering	1,361
Civil Engineering	1,240
Chemical Engineering	1,120
Materials Engineering	772
General Engineering	458
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	428
Computer Engineering	392
Industrial Engineering	346

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.