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2023 Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania

4 Colleges
$80,718 Avg Salary
$27,000 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Petroleum Engineering School for You

Petroleum Engineering is the #195 most popular major in Pennsylvania with 82 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Pennsylvania to see which 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 following schools top our list of the Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Colleges.

Our analysis found Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania to be the most popular school for petroleum engineering students who want to pursue a degree in Pennsylvania. SRU is a medium-sized public school located in the town of Slippery Rock.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Saint Francis University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania list. Saint Francis is a small private not-for-profit school located in the fringe town of Loretto.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania list. IUP is a medium-sized public school located in the distant town of Indiana.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus is a great place for petroleum engineering students. Pitt is a very large public school located in the city of Pittsburgh.

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Best Petroleum Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Most Popular Petroleum Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded

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 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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