2025 Best Petroleum Engineering Schools in Colorado
1College in Colorado
110Petroleum Engineering Degrees Awarded
$70,564Avg Early-Career Salary
When it comes to popularity, petroleum engineering sits in the middle of the road, ranking #223 out of 395 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
There was only one school in Colorado to review for the 2025 Best Petroleum Engineering Schools in Colorado ranking.
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Best Schools for Petroleum Engineering in Colorado
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the petroleum engineering degree levels they offer.
Every student who is interested in petroleum engineering has to look into Colorado School of Mines. Mines is a moderately-sized public school located in the large suburb of Golden.
Those petroleum engineering students who get their degree from Colorado School of Mines earn $6,836 more than the typical petroleum engineering graduate.
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).
