<p>Hi everyone. I am a high school student in Canada and I am thinking of studying petroleum engineering.</p>
<p>In Canada only University of Alberta and University of Calgary offer a degree related to petroleum engineering because there are oils in their province. However, they are not very much reputable schools so I wonder if it will affect my career. My goal is to eventually work in the U.S. or China (I am a Chinese). </p>
<p>I am also planning to attend a British university. And I find that the Imperial College London has a Petroleum Geo-science program, do you think I should go to Imperial instead of University of Alberta?</p>
<p>Know that there is a distinction between Petroleum Engineering and Petroleum Geo-science. Basically, the difference between science and engineering.</p>
<p>If you want to eventually work in the U.S., it might actually be to your advantage to study in the U.S. I’m not kidding, but the best PE universities are in Texas. We have the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M at College Station. From what I hear, you’re pretty much set for employment if you graduate from here. </p>
<p>However, I’ve read once in a thread here that PE graduates from smaller schools have also had success. In fact, as long as UA or UC give you significant field experience, you’ll have plenty of opportunities.</p>
<p>Godot17, the problem for me is I have not taken or studied any SAT/ACT stuff. It is too late for me to start right now… So I can either go to a Canadian university or a British one…</p>
<p>You’re not trying to get a job on Wall St. Companies like Shell, Conoco, BP, Chevron all regularly take on students from the UofC and UofA. Not sure what your issue is with “reputation”. That’s an American thing, try not to get caught up in that BS. The UofA and UofC both have top notch PetrE programs. The fact that the schools weren’t founded in the 1800’s and don’t have massive athletic programs doesn’t mean you’re going to be unemployed for the rest of your life.</p>
<p>Most of the big American companies have plays in Canada and recruit at the UofC and UofA. Once you get on with one of them you should be able to work out of the US at some point if that’s what you want. Like Godot said, your school is not going to matter once you get that initial experience. I doubt recruitment at any of the US schools let alone that school in Britain is any better than the UofA or UofC for the oil industry. Really do not understand the logic behind going to a British University.</p>