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Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

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2023 Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

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Finding the Best Petroleum Engineering Doctor's Degree 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to see which doctor's degree 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 doctor's degree.

Our 2023 rankings named Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College the most popular school in the Southeast Region for petroleum engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Women make up 14% of the petroleum engineering majors at the school.

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#2

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, MS

The in-demand doctor’s degree programs at Mississippi State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular petroleum engineering schools in the Southeast Region . Mississippi State is a fairly large public school located in the remote town of Mississippi State.

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Best Petroleum Engineering Colleges by State

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

State Degrees Awarded
Louisiana 104
Mississippi 15
West Virginia 74

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 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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