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2023 Best Value Petroleum Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$26,630 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Petroleum Engineering Graduate Certificate School for You

Petroleum Engineering is the #193 most popular major in the country with 401 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Petroleum Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the United States to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for petroleum engineering students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Petroleum Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the United States

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

Best Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Petroleum Engineering

Our analysis found University of Oklahoma Norman Campus to be the best value school for petroleum engineering students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the United States. Located in the suburb of Norman, University of Oklahoma is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at University of Oklahoma are $23,876 a year.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Missouri University of Science and Technology is a great value for petroleum engineering students working on their graduate certificate. Missouri University of Science and Technology is a medium-sized public school located in the remote town of Rolla.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Missouri University of Science and Technology are $31,008 per year.

Missouri University of Science and Technology also claimed a spot on our Best Petroleum Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

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#3

University of Kansas

Lawrence, KS

The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Kansas helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value petroleum engineering schools in the United States. Located in the small city of Lawrence, KU is a public school with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at KU are $25,007 per year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, KU also did well on our Best Petroleum Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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Petroleum Engineering by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

Petroleum Engineering is one of 39 different types of programs to choose from.

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 3 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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