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2023 Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$28,635 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$73,195 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Petroleum Engineering School for You

Out of all the majors we analyze each year, petroleum engineering was ranked #193 in the country. In fact 401 degrees and certificates were handed out in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to see which 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.

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.

2023 Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for petroleum engineering majors pursuing a .

Best Southeast Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Petroleum Engineering

#1

West Virginia University

Morgantown, WV
$25,824 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named West Virginia University the best value school in the Southeast Region for petroleum engineering students. Located in the city of Morgantown, WVU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

WVU undergraduate students pay an average of $25,824 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Petroleum Engineering at West Virginia University

$28,635 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College landed the # 2 spot on the list. Louisiana State University is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Baton Rouge.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Louisiana State University are $28,635 a year.

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Best Petroleum Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best petroleum engineering colleges for a specific state in the Southeast region.

State Degrees Awarded
Louisiana 10
Mississippi 0
West Virginia 7

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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 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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