Petroleum Engineering
Ranked in 2017, part of Best Engineering Schools
Petroleum engineers are charged with discovering the best ways to extract oil and gas from underground deposits. These are the top graduate schools for petroleum engineering. Each school's score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions.
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Save | Rank | School name | Score | Tuition | Total graduate engineering enrollment | Average GRE quantitative score (master's and Ph.D. students) (new test) | Engineering school research expenditures (2016 fiscal year) | |||||
#1 | University of Texas—Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX | 5.0 | $9,850 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,030 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,362 | 165 | $204,333,510 | ||||||
#2 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | 4.6 | $50,424 per year (full-time) | 3,675 | 167 | $201,159,834 | ||||||
#3 | Texas A&M University—College Station College Station, TX | 4.4 | $258 per credit (in-state, full-time); $681 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,469 | 164 | $282,798,000 | ||||||
#4 | University of Tulsa Tulsa, OK | 4.0 | $1,235 per credit (full-time) | 244 | 163 | $15,767,254 | ||||||
#5 | Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO | 3.8 | $15,690 per year (in-state, full-time); $34,020 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,227 | 160 | $51,407,036 | ||||||
#6Tie | Pennsylvania State University—University Park University Park, PA | 3.3 | $21,294 per year (in-state, full-time); $35,650 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,029 | 163 | $100,096,457 | ||||||
#6Tie | University of Oklahoma Norman, OK | 3.3 | $204 per credit (in-state, full-time); $791 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 710 | 161 | $27,330,543 | ||||||
#6Tie | University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA | 3.3 | $29,520 per year (full-time) | 5,497 | 166 | $192,117,384 | ||||||
#9 | Texas Tech University (Whitacre) Lubbock, TX | 2.5 | $315 per credit (in-state, full-time); $723 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 896 | 159 | $17,508,000 | ||||||
#10 | Louisiana State University—Baton Rouge Baton Rouge, LA | 2.4 | $8,728 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,643 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 619 | 159 | $21,980,000 | ||||||
#11 | University of Kansas Lawrence, KS | 2.3 | $395 per credit (in-state, full-time); $924 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 640 | 161 | $15,253,449 | ||||||
#12Tie | University of Houston (Cullen) Houston, TX | 2.0 | $442 per credit (in-state, full-time); $950 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,448 | 161 | $31,459,760 | ||||||
#12Tie | University of Wyoming Laramie, WY | 2.0 | $241 per credit (in-state, full-time); $721 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 262 | 161 | $19,044,411 | ||||||
RNP | Missouri University of Science & Technology Rolla, MO | N/A | $9,288 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,766 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,127 | 156 | $24,974,630 | ||||||
RNP | University of North Dakota Grand Forks, ND | N/A | N/A | 165 | 150 | $4,000,000 | ||||||
RNP | West Virginia University (Statler) Morgantown, WV | N/A | $10,242 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,056 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 701 | 157 | $19,861,768 |