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Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in Colorado

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2023 Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in Colorado

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$19,538 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$94,022 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Petroleum Engineering School for You

With 22 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, petroleum engineering is the #107 most popular major in Colorado.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in Colorado ranking.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Petroleum Engineering Colleges.

Best Petroleum Engineering School

$19,538 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Colorado School of Mines the best value school in Colorado for petroleum engineering students. Mines is a moderately-sized public school located in the suburb of Golden.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Mines are $19,538 a year.

Mines also took the #1 spot in our Best Petroleum Engineering Schools in Colorado rankings.

Read full report on Petroleum Engineering at Colorado School of Mines

Best Value Petroleum Engineering Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Explore all the Best Value Petroleum Engineering Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Utah 3
Montana 3
Wyoming 11

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

Majors Similar to Petroleum Engineering

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 values are for the top school 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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