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Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

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2023 Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

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Finding the Best Petroleum Engineering Graduate Certificate 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. 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to see which graduate certificate programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Petroleum Engineering program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for petroleum engineering majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Our 2023 rankings named University of Oklahoma Norman Campus the most popular school in the Southwest Region for petroleum engineering students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Norman, University of Oklahoma is a public school with a very large student population.

Full Petroleum Engineering at University of Oklahoma Norman Campus Report

The in-demand graduate certificate programs at The University of Texas at Austin helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular petroleum engineering schools in the Southwest Region . UT Austin is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Austin.

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Best Petroleum Engineering Colleges by State

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

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 171
Oklahoma 62
New Mexico 9

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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