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2022 Best Vallue Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making Over $110k

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16 Degrees Awarded
$16,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Vallue Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in the Far Western US Region For Those Making Over $110k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,582 people earned their degree in petroleum engineering, making the major the 180th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, petroleum engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $66,730 and had an average of $24,667 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 73 petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,200 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 petroleum engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,083 and $22,209 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent petroleum engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the petroleum engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Vallue Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Petroleum Engineering (Income Over $110k) in the Far Western US Region

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Vallue Petroleum Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, this medium-sized public school handed out 16 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s petroleum engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UAF, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Petroleum Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UAF is $10,333 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Petroleum Engineering students whose families make more than $110k.

Read more about Petroleum Engineering at UAF

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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).
  • 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

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • 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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