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2023 Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$25,870 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$73,195 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Petroleum Engineering School for You

Petroleum Engineering is the #227 most popular major in the country with 1,256 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

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

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, MS
$24,900 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Mississippi State University to be the best value school for petroleum engineering students who want to pursue a degree in the Southeast Region . Mississippi State is a very large public school located in the town of Mississippi State.

Mississippi State undergraduate students pay an average of $24,900 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Petroleum Engineering at Mississippi State University Report

#2

West Virginia University

Morgantown, WV

Out of the 4 schools in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University landed the # 2 spot on the list. WVU is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Morgantown.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at WVU are $25,824 per year. Petroleum Engineering majors at WVU take out an average of $27,000 in student loans while working on their egree. The average monthly payment of a loan this size is about $290, assuming that the borrower is on a 10-year repayment plan.

Full Petroleum Engineering at West Virginia University Report

Out of the 4 schools in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the medium-sized city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Louisiana State University are $28,635 a year. Petroleum Engineering majors at Louisiana State University take out an average of $27,000 in student loans while working on their egree. For students who choose a 10-year repayment plan, the average monthly student loan payment is $264.

Louisiana State University also claimed a spot on our Best Petroleum Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

Read full report on Petroleum Engineering at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

$24,074 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region list. UL Lafayette is a large public school located in the city of Lafayette.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UL Lafayette are $24,074 a year. Petroleum Engineering majors at UL Lafayette take out an average of $27,700 in student loans while working on their egree.

Full Petroleum Engineering at University of Louisiana at Lafayette Report

Best Petroleum Engineering Colleges by State

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

State Degrees Awarded
Louisiana 104
Mississippi 15
West Virginia 74

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One of 40 majors within the area of study, petroleum engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Petroleum Engineering

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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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