2025 Best Petroleum Engineering Schools in New Mexico
1College in New Mexico
14Petroleum Engineering Degrees Awarded
$70,564Avg Early-Career Salary
Petroleum Engineering is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #223 out of the 395 majors across the country that we analyze each year. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
There was only one school in New Mexico to review for the 2025 Best Petroleum Engineering Schools in New Mexico ranking.
The petroleum engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Petroleum Engineering Schools in New Mexico.
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Best Schools for Petroleum Engineering in New Mexico
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 petroleum engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's difficult to beat New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology if you want to pursue a degree in petroleum engineering. Located in the town of Socorro, New Mexico Tech is a public school with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their degree from the petroleum engineering program state that they receive average early career earnings of $42,325.
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).
