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2023 Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in West Virginia

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$0 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$74,468 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Petroleum Engineering School for You

Petroleum Engineering is the #73 most popular major in West Virginia with 74 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in West Virginia ranking.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees 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

#1

West Virginia University

Morgantown, WV

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

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at WVU are $9,144 per year. After completing their degree, petroleum engineering graduates from WVU carry an average student debtload of $27,000. Assuming that a graduate chooses a 10-year repayment plan, the average monthly loan payment is $290.

WVU also took the #5 spot in our Best Petroleum Engineering Schools in West Virginia rankings.

Read full report on Petroleum Engineering at West Virginia University

Best Value Petroleum Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Louisiana 104
Mississippi 15

Petroleum Engineering is one of 40 different types of programs to choose from.

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 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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