<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am currently a Petroleum Engineering junior at A&M,transferred in last semester. I'm wondering if anyone knows how many sophmores and juniors have internships for this summer. If you don't know, do you know who I should ask? The main reason I want to know is because I didn't get one and most of my friends didn't either.</p>
<p>Also, if you're at a different Petroleum school I would like to know what percentage of those students got internships.</p>
<p>What’s your GPA? I’m surprised you didn’t get one, it’s a requirement before you graduate. Who are your friends and what are their GPA’s? Did you go to the career fair and other stuff or what’d you do to try and get one?</p>
<p>TXAggie92, aren’t you just a freshman finishing only one semester in TAMU. Don’t comment if you don’t know how hard it is to get internship now in this down turn economy.<br>
Just keep applying and pray for the best. If you have BP scholarship, the 1st round of interview already over. Many internship also have up coming dateline around end of Jan or early Feb. Go visit the career office and ask them for help. Don’t be afraid to ask for help from your parents, relatives and friends for for refer. That is call networking. That is how S1 in CSE got his internship last summer now working PT during school year. If you have any job experience be sure to mention that. GPA alone will not get you an intern. Do dress professional for any interview. S2 also in the same boat as you in EE, just keep trying. At least Texas has more opportunity than CA.</p>
<p>“it’s a requirement before you graduate”</p>
<p>Seriously? Is this requirement just for Petroleum?</p>
<p>I had a 3.6 last semester when I applied. My friends have 3.4, 3.2, etc. So good grades. I know one guy with a 3.87 and he still has not gotten an internship. We all went to the career fair and applied to all the companies on the career center’s website.</p>
<p>Also, when they say “an internship is required to graduate” that doesn’t mean a real internship. The petroleum advisor told me there are ways around that, like just working for the school in the summer.</p>
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<p>Yes the job as a summer researcher for the department is true as well, that can count as your internship.</p>
<p>I apologize for being selfish and asking some questions for myself. It’s not like I take time to help out numerous people through private messaging every day. God forbid I ask another question.</p>
<p>It is not necessary to be non-civil in this forum. If I came across the wrong way, I sincerely apologize.
After seeing my S1 and many of his classmates struggling through obtaining internship even in popular CSE in Junior and Senior, my hearts go out to all of them. I cannot help but wonder what about the less popular major. A stellar academic record do not guarantee good work ethnic or team player. Nor can you predict a sub par academic students work performance. I have been a hiring manager in scientific profession and I can attest to that. It is a very long 4/5 years of college studies of any majors. The uncertainty of this difficult economic environment has put many of them very apprehensive of their future. All of them deserve to be encourage regardless of their status.</p>
<p>Yeup. Just PetE.</p>
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<p>While PetE may be less popular than CSE, there is one thing you haven’t accounted for: Rankings. When compared to other schools, CSE at A&M isn’t a top 20 ranked program, while PetE at A&M is usually THE top ranked program (see USNWR). You can begin the argument that “Rankings don’t mean anything”, blah blah blah, but in reality they do. When PetE companies like ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips go to hire, they are going directly for A&M graduates. When CSE companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook go to hire, they don’t directly go for A&M graduates.</p>
<p>I’m a senior at Texas Tech and almost every junior and senior got multiple internship & full-time offers last semester. With oil prices around $90 +/-, I don’t see why it would be difficult to get a job in the oil industry. Some companies are coming back for the Spring job fair to hire more interns and full-timers. This rarely happens, as oil companies usually fill up all their openings during the Fall semester.</p>
<p>I don’t understand how Texas Tech juniors and seniors all have petroleum engineering jobs and A&M students don’t (not saying I don’t believe you). A&M just sent out a flyer to companies telling them that there are a lot of hard working juniors, seniors, and grad students in petroleum engineering still looking for work.</p>
<p>One of my junior classmates said that in her lab, the teacher asked how many people have had an internship or have one set up for this Summer. NO ONE raised their hand out of 20 people. Another classmate had the same question asked in his lab and he said only about half the class raised their hand.</p>
<p>So why is Tech getting jobs, while A&M isn’t?</p>
<p>maybe it is the proximity of TT to the oil fields</p>
<p>petroleum23 - I am honestly surprised as well. Without going into the details of which school is ranked higher than the other, I am just surprised that many people in your school are finding it difficult to get a job in the oil industry when oil prices are relatively high and also have been stable for a long time. But as klparker312 mentioned, maybe many recruiters come to us because we’re in the Permian Basin, where 20% of the US oil production comes from, and where more than 65% of Texas onshore oil production comes from. </p>
<p>I remember last semester we had more than 50 oil companies coming on campus. These included majors, independent, private and service companies. Each one of them was at least hiring 2 or 3 interns (some of them hired up to 5 interns).</p>
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<p>Its relatively hard here at Texas Tech as well. Back a few years ago EVERYONE got an internship, but now I’d say its down to around 50%. It looks like Oil is going up though, so there’s hope on the horizon. </p>
<p>I feel your anxiety and best wishes and keep trying.</p>
<p>PS: Gstein > S1-UCLA-CSE. Have internship, he applied more then he care to count last summer. Now with god grace he has a PT job same company. So try all the network and connection you can imagine and think of for your internship and keep trying. Don’t just relies on job fair company alone. Best wishes.</p>
<p>At Texas, most (not all) students have internship offers. My son had internships after his freshman and sophomore years and received another this past fall. In the final analysis, the ultimate goal is a job after college. Currently, there are more job openings than graduates. There are only 21,000 Petroleum Engineers in the country and the projected growth of their numbers through 2018 is not significant when compared to other engineering disciplines.</p>
<p>petroleum23, Texas A&M is a Tier 1 university with one of the finest PE programs in the country. Try to keep your chin up. You’ll be fine.</p>
<p>The Pete department sent out a pretty surprising email, either this is a down year for A&M or those classes haven’t been very motivated to get an internship.</p>
<p>Yeah, that email is really depressing to read. Most students are shocked by how many Seniors do not have jobs.
From what I’ve heard though, service companies will come in at the end of the year and low-ball the people still looking for a job.</p>
<p>Do you still think the overall prospects look good? It seems like employment has pretty comfortably been around 100% in the past few years. Also a lot more people will be retiring soon supposedly since there was a big drop in PETE enrollments for a period of time. How optimistic are you and how optimistic do you think I should be for 3 years own the line?</p>
<p>It looks pretty bad, but if the price of oil keeps going up and we get rid of Obama you should be OK. Just make sure you are one of the top students in your class.</p>
<p>Yeah man I’m concerned though if people like yourself with 3.6’s aren’t getting jobs.</p>