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Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in New Mexico

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2023 Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in New Mexico

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$8,425 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$70,180 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Petroleum Engineering School for You

In 2020-2021, 24 degrees and certificates were awarded to petroleum engineering students who went to a New Mexico college or university. This makes it the #110 most popular major in the state.

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Petroleum Engineering Schools in New Mexico to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Petroleum Engineering Colleges.

Best Petroleum Engineering School

$8,425 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology the best value school in New Mexico for petroleum engineering students. New Mexico Tech is a small public school located in the remote town of Socorro.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at New Mexico Tech are $8,425 a year. On average, petroleum engineering graduates from New Mexico Tech take out $29,907 in student loans while working on their degree.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, New Mexico Tech is ranked #2 for overall quality for petroleum engineering in New Mexico.

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Best Value Petroleum Engineering Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 445
Oklahoma 137

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

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 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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