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2023 Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region

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Finding the Best Petroleum Engineering Graduate Certificate 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Plains States Region to see which graduate certificate 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 graduate certificate.

#1

University of Kansas

Lawrence, KS

Our 2023 rankings named University of Kansas the most popular school in the Plains States Region for petroleum engineering students working on their graduate certificate. KU is a very large public school located in the city of Lawrence.

About 20% of the students majoring in petroleum engineering at the school are women while 80% are male.

Read full report on Petroleum Engineering at University of Kansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Missouri University of Science and Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list. Located in the remote town of Rolla, Missouri University of Science and Technology is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

Read full report on Petroleum Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology

Best Petroleum Engineering Colleges by State

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

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 34
Kansas 35
North Dakota 52

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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