<p>ForeverLSU:</p>
<p>LOL, I love ya' man, but those rankings are for MASTER DEGREES ONLY! Considering UL doesen't have a Masters degree in PE, my guess it wouldn't be on there. Talking with the chair of UL, UL believes a masters degree is useless in this field; a complete waste of time. There ARE NO rankings for ugrad petroleum. You just can't rank the schools. Plus, those rankings by US News are for dollars spent in RESEARCH. And considering LSU gobbles up all the state money, UL only has the money to create an excellent ugrad program. Those rankings render useless.</p>
<p>Also, UL is one of the oldest PE programs out there... They just had three name changes in the process, making it confusing. USWL -> USL -> UL.</p>
<p>Toadstool: That is because all the other programs go soely by "Petroleum Engineering." Those programs, like WVU, PSU, and NMT label their programs as a "B.S. in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering." Google it, those schools just want to feel special or something, so they add natural gas engineering into the label. But in reality, they have more natural gas up there then oil, so the program focuses more on NG.</p>
<p>HoustonOilers27:</p>
<p>I think you may want to say PhD degree instead of Master degree. Those rankings are actually for PhD. And UL do have Master program in PE.</p>
<p>thank you, mayerster, I wish I would have only got to this post sooner. Quite frankly houston, you don't need a master degree to do petroleum engineering work. It all depends on the company you work for, a small company, sure you don't. A corporation, Shell, Chevron, BP, ect., I haven't met an engineering manager yet, that doesn't have a PhD.</p>
<p>Also, Toadstool's post doesn't include stanford which changed the name of their petroleum engineering degree program. It is called some type of energy engineering non sense, they always have to be different. The will probably complain to US News and get them to make their own ranking for energy engineering, why, because texas A&M and UT were kicking their ass at the subject, lol.</p>
<p>I've also spoken with the engineers and they said if you ever make around 125k a year over your lifetime at a corporation, consider yourself lucky. The only way you will ever make what you deserve in petrol is if you work for a smaller company, drilling, that is it. And honestly, very few want to do drilling because of things like the time, commitment, family, and just because they actually want to have time off and have a life.</p>
<p>Forever: I'm going to be honest with you and go ahead and say that I'm going for drilling. I know my best years won't be spent at a bar, chasing women for what their worth, but hopefully my hormones will be lower by 25. So from your experience in internships; how fun can you have on a rig? I know it's hard to rent a helicopter offshore from Halliburton and fly to a bar, and take some women back to the rig. Lol whatta one night stand for the girl, having to swim her way back home through the Gulf of Mexico, huh!? I'm sure there will be at least a poker night on the rig! What if the super bowl is one!!!! But hey if I'm working 24 on 7 off, pulling in PLEASE SAY 300k+ I'M FINE, NO COMPLAINTS; SET! Just feed me.</p>
<p>Now so what your saying, if I choose reservoir engineering; I'm screwed. Instead of me explaing myself 'cuz I'm high as a kite right now; tell me the way to success, excluding the phd and the masters! I'm all ears! 8:)</p>
<p>and lol now I KNOW they don't have a PhD, but yes there is apparently a new masters program that recently restarted up again; all 5 graduates will have great education!</p>
<p>lol, that is the funniest thing I've read in a long time houston, lol. I'm speechless.</p>
<p>Keep up the good work.</p>
<p>You could work on land, in texas, drilling wild cat wells, and then go chase the women, pull double call, you would still make around 300K, regualar around one 150, but you would have no relief. That would be somewhere around a 30 hour shift. Sleep three hours, and this go get drunk, lol. The way to success my friend, screwing the ground with a large apendage, and chasing the women. Who knows anymore than this.</p>
<p>If you ever seen black gold, that is no joke, although the petroleum engineers that would go to those rigs were a little anal retentive.</p>
<p>although, if you seen the high pressure mud flowing out of the connections, that is BS. They were only doing that for the TV show. You never do something like that. With that mud on the deck, the company risks someone tripping and then getting sued for stupidity.</p>