<p>I'm majoring in Petroleum Engineering at Penn State University and I have 1.5 year left to graduate. Would it be a better option for me to transfer to TAMU where opportunities are greater? Plus, I think the tuition of both schools are about the same.</p>
<p>Is your GPA pretty high? Are the upper level courses similar?</p>
<p>do the transfer and if you don’t like the Petroleum Engineering department at Texas A&M, you can always major in Poulty Science, which ranks #1 in the country.</p>
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<p>I’m sure you’ll like the number one undergrad department though for petroleum engineering.</p>
<p>With 1.5 years to go - do a LOT of homework. You need to know how many of your courses will transfer, what you will lose, what you will need to make up.</p>
<p>I don’t know about PetEngr, but I know both schools are recruited for geoscience positions. </p>
<p>What kind of “opportunities” are you looking for? Summer internships would probably be easier thru TAMU just from a logistical standpoint, but job recruitment opportunities should be similar. I know at lot of Penn State engineers with oil companies.</p>
<p>My GPA is 3.13 and yes most of the upper level courses are the same since they both are accredited. My main concern is definitely summer internship availabilities. I believe that if you graduate without any internship experience, then you are pretty much screwed. Hence, I’m trying to enhance my opportunity as much as possible. I have 80 credits and both schools I believe required 129 credits to graduate. </p>
<p>I know in order to graduate, you need at least 60 credits of that school no? At this point, it is quite a tough call for me.</p>
<p>If I was in your position I’d probably stay but you gotta do what you think is best and right.</p>
<p>Don’t assume that just because both programs are accredited that all their lower/upper level courses are the same. Schools need to cover specific curricular topics to be accredited, they don’t have to offer them all the same way. Some do, many don’t.</p>
<p>Have you checked into internship opportunities at Penn State?</p>
<p>Have you applied for the transfer and been accepted and are just now trying to make a decision? There are a limited number of spots for upper level and usually they are filled by the freshman or first/second year transfers. There may not be any room in third/fourth year level courses.</p>
<p>What about finishing at Penn State and doing a grad program at Texas A&M?</p>
<p>^^^
Montegut - that was also what I was thinking.</p>
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<p>best comment on this board, unless the Texas A&M graduate program in Petroleum Engineering is much tougher to get into than transferring to the undergraduate school.</p>
<p>I’m too old to be in grad school haha. I have over 5 on-campus interviews with major and independent companies but didn’t get any so far. Only one person I know got it but the rest are in same boat as I am. Hence, I think TAMU may have a better chance of landing an internship. </p>
<p>I’ll be contacting TAMU after spring break and see how it goes. So far, I checked with both core classes, they all seem to match.</p>