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2023 Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Master's Degree Schools in California

2 Colleges
$156,753 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Petroleum Engineering Master's Degree 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 Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Master's Degree Schools in California ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in California to see which ones were the most popular master's degree programs 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 following schools top our list of the Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Master's Degree Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named University of Southern California the most popular school in California for petroleum engineering students working on their master’s degree. USC is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Los Angeles.

About 26% of the students majoring in petroleum engineering at the school are women while 74% are male.

Full Petroleum Engineering at University of Southern California Report

#2

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

The in-demand master’s degree programs at Stanford University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular petroleum engineering schools in California. Stanford is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Stanford.

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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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