<p>Got scholarships to both schools, but not full so still have to pay some out of my pocket.</p>
<p>Case 1:
New Mexico Tech
Tuition:$6093/year
Size: 1700
Only 40 undergraduates in the petroleum department so very small and it seems like a close group. Also have Petroleum research anf recovery center on campus which is known nationally for research. Also spoke to two graduates, one said she is starting at 70 000 and her company said she will be at six figures in 3 years. The other guy said he is training at 75 000 for six months, then making 100 000 after that, only working 60% of the year.</p>
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<p>Case 2:
University of Louisiana Lafayette
Tuition/$3400 year
Size:17 000
200 undergraduate in the program, don't know as much about this school is NMT. Do not know if they have any research center located on campus like NMT. Obviously this is a bigger school and you can say I will experience the typical "college experience." More distractions more women, alcohol etc..Bigger metro city unlike socorro NM which is like 9000.</p>
<p>Chair of the department said recent grads are making an avergae salary of 80 000 coming out. One negative is ( I know its not reliable) that I read someone on ratemyprofessors say that he has been told companies don't hire from ULL because of their lack of drilling experience. But I know this could be coming from a bitter dropout, who knows. </p>
<p>One last note, I tried looking at rankings and the only thing I saw was new mexico tech was ranked 10/20 for best graduate/research school in the USA.
ULL was nowhere to be found in any rankings I saw.</p>
<p>Anyways Please help me as I can not decide and this is killing me.</p>
<p>I think it matters more where you want to work. I think ULL has a bigger name nationally/internationally. However, that doesn't mean ULL has a big name nationally or internationally, just bigger than NMT.</p>
<p>Your tuition cost doubles by going to ULL. I agree with UCBChemEGrad that you should pay a little visit (Especially ULL since you don't know much about the school and a random student from ratemyprofessor.com is not credible). It should be worth the money.</p>
<p>Yucca, do you currently go to NMT? If so do you think a tuition rate that would be twice that of ULL is justified? Honestly, I just want to go to the best school possible. I know visiting would be the best but like I said before, at this point I am not in the best situation to fly out internationally to Louisiana or New Mexico from Canada.</p>
<p>i'm a bit surprised that ULaLa doesn't have enough drilling experience...they are only a couple hours away from the Gulf of Mexico. NMT is a more academically focused school, as opposed to ULaLa, where petroleum engineering is most likely their only noteworthy program. But since so few schools offer petroleum engineering... it's hard to go wrong.</p>
<p>I glanced through both faculty resources and NMT had 5 faculty members for 40 students and ULL had 8 faculty members for 200 students.</p>
<p>I don't know how professors come in to play for petroleum engineering... but 1:25 at ULL doesn't give me the feeling that many students get equal researching opportunities.</p>
<p>Westsidewolf- remember I did not hear about the lack of drilling experience from a credible source.. it was from rate my professors.</p>
<p>tahncol86... that is one of the main reasons why I am leaning towards NMT at the moment, because of its close knit family atmosphere. Just reading the newsletters it seems like all the 40 undergrads and faculty work close together.</p>
<p>I was admitted to NMT but I didn't go there finally. Because I chose EE over PetroE at last. NMT is not a great place for EE major.</p>
<p>I believe LSU at baton rough has a better petroleum.</p>
<p>Another thing to mention is that,petroleum is not the only notable program at NMT.Their hydrology is among the best in the naiton. Anyway,I don't think geology/hydrology/petroleum really fit me.</p>