<p>Hi, I am currently going to a community college in california and have a GPA of around 3.94-96. I am looking to major in petroleum engineering and cannot find any schools in California, and I cannot seem to get any solid info on what would my best out of state choice be from Google. The rankings are all rather varied and I am utterly at loss. I see Marietta College being ranked quite high for PETE but is that really the case? Would I be better off going to a school in Texas/Oklahoma or Colorado School of Mines? Some factors that need to be considered are scholarship opportunities for out of state transfer students and housing options. Any insight on this would really help me a lot!</p>
<p>What kind of price limit are you looking at?</p>
<p>Here are the top 17 petroleum engineering schools, in alphabetical order:</p>
<p>Colorado School of Mines
Louisiana State University and A&M College
Marietta College
Missouri University of Science and Technology (Formerly University of Missouri-Rolla)
Montana Tech of the University of Montana (Formerly Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology)
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Pennsylvania State University
Texas A&M University
Texas Tech University
The University of Kansas (Formerly University of Kansas)
The University of Tulsa (Formerly University of Tulsa)
University of Alaska Fairbanks
University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Formerly University of Southwestern Louisiana)
University of Oklahoma
University of Texas at Austin
University of Wyoming
West Virginia University</p>
<p>Note that not all of them are that expensive; check their costs of attendance.</p>
<p>Doesn’t Stanford offer some sort of Petroleum or Nature Resources Engineering degree?</p>
<p><a href=“Energy Science & Engineering”>Energy Science & Engineering; indicates that it has an energy and resources engineering undergraduate major, but not a petroleum engineering undergraduate major.</p>
<p>You might also want to consider schools which offer a mining engineering or geologic engineering. Some of the institutions are WUE schools which give the rate to transfers (150% of in state tuition). </p>
<p>Schools with geological engineering:
-Colorado School of Mines
-Michigan Tech
-Missouri University of Science and Technology - Supposedly easy to establish in state residency
-Montana Tech (WUE)
-South Dakota School of Mines (WUE)
-University of Alaska - Fairbanks (WUE)
-University of Minnesota
-University of Nevada - Reno (WUE)
-University of North Dakota (WUE)
-University of Texas - Austin
-University of Utah</p>
<p>-University of Arizona also offers mining engineering and gives WUE. Within the geology world, UA has a stellar reputation.</p>
<p>Some schools, including University of Southern California offer a petroleum engineering concentration within their ABET accredited chemical engineering department. I believe other schools do the same. Not only does this give a bit of degree flexibility, but many chemical engineers end up working for oil companies.</p>
<p>Also, it’s certainly possible to enter the drilling and refining industries without a petroleum engineering degree. North Dakotans don’t have an ABET accredited petroleum engineering school in their state, yet given the ongoing shale oil boom, I’d be shocked if graduates of UND’s geological engineering program weren’t finding jobs in the industry.</p>
<p>UT-Austin
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
University of Oklahoma
Tulsa (?)</p>
<p>“Scholarship opportunities for out of state transfer students” are generally close to non-existent. How much can you afford to pay?<br>
FYI: UND started a petroleum engineering program in 2010. It will undergo ABET evaluation in 2015.</p>
<p>Your message is 100% on-target.</p>
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<p>Hence the WUE recommendation. Many Western universities give massive tuition discounts to their best OOS transfer students. Given that this student has close to a 4.0 and wants to major in an economically profitable field, I would be surprised if none of the universities offering WUE rates gave the OP the scholarship.</p>
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<p>SD Mines’ out-of-state list price is so low that the WUE rate would not be cheaper than its out-of-state list price.
[Full</a> Time Undergraduate Students](<a href=“HPC Page”>Full Time Undergraduate Students)</p>
<p>SD Mines has geological engineering and mining engineering but not petroleum engineering.</p>
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<p>Note that mining engineering is the only major at the University of Arizona that is eligible for the WUE discount:
[WICHE</a> - Student Exchange Programs](<a href=“http://wue.wiche.edu/profile.jsp?id=29]WICHE”>http://wue.wiche.edu/profile.jsp?id=29)</p>