<p>ULL is also a more tight knit school as compared to LSU. ULL you’ll meet your dean the first day, where as here, if you see the dean you must have been sent from god or you got into some serious CACA. I would say ULL does the better job of teaching and organizng the curriculum than LSU does. The LSU petroleum engineering department has an idiot for a coordinator, many a petroleum student has been mislead by him and has been forced to take an extra year because they didn’t take their classes in order. Here, certain classes fall in only one semester. So, if you don’t end up taking the right classes, you’ll have to wait a whole year before you can take it again. Which really can go bad if you a mislead. Also, ULL is not into the whole weed out process like LSU is. They actually want to teach you, where as here, they want to see how many people they can eliminate from the program. We’ve had guys that have transfered from LSU to ULL who said it was 10 times easier. They also have people who take certain courses outside of LSU at places like Southern University because some of our professor’s are horrible at teaching some courses. Petroleum Engineering isn’t really problem solving, it is more analysis and interpreting. The thing is if you are the type of person that learns from a book, or learns from doing example problems petrol eng. is not like that. It is important that you have a good teacher, because there aren’t any books to teach you. There is no book on reservoir or anything of the likeness. Everything you are tested on is based off of actual industry examples, actual well log diagrams, actual reservoir images. Also, the classes are all based off of audio listen as opposed to learning by seeing or doing. If you are not a good audio learner you will be trouble. Everything in petrol is theorectical, it is not concrete like a few of the other engineering disciplines. Petroleum engineers don’t make the highest engineering salaries for nothing. And only if you are good will you make above that of other engineers. You must also take into accout the lifestyle of working on rigs and in the middle of nowhere. It is becoming increasing hard to find suitable wells to drill. Also, petroleum engineering is the most stressful of the disciplines, they have people who have finished their petroleum degree who went work out in the field for a while, who came back and decided to major in something else. Put it this way, if you like geology, gambling, like not having a definite understanding of what is going to happen next, and having an irregular lifestyle that is away from home, then petroleum engineering is right for you. Many people work off shore for a while and dont’ want any more of it after. It doesn’t matter who your are, at some point you get tired of it. That is why many of the professor’s who teach in this field didn’t even spend 10 years in the field, they had seen enough, and wanted to get back to a normal lifestyle again.</p>