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2023 Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in California

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$58,836 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Petroleum Engineering School for You

With 25 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, petroleum engineering is the #189 most popular major in California.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in California ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in California to see which ones offered the best value programs for petroleum engineering students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in California

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Petroleum Engineering Colleges.

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality in Petroleum Engineering

#1

Stanford University

Stanford, CA
$56,169 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Stanford University the best value school in California for petroleum engineering students. Stanford is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Stanford.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Stanford are $56,169 a year.

Stanford did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Petroleum Engineering Schools in California list.

Full Petroleum Engineering at Stanford University Report

$61,503 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in California list. USC is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Los Angeles.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at USC are $61,503 per year.

USC excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Petroleum Engineering Schools in California list.

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State Degrees Awarded
Alaska 3

One of 39 majors within the area of study, petroleum engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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.

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