Petroleum engineers are charged with discovering the best ways to extract oil and gas from underground deposits. These are the top graduate schools for petroleum engineering. Each school’s score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions.

• Colorado School of MinesGolden, COPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$26KGraduation rate78%Acceptance rate53%
• Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station, TXPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$19KGraduation rate80%Acceptance rate58%
• The University of Texas at AustinAustin, TXPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$17KGraduation rate81%Acceptance rate32%
• Penn State UniversityState College, PAPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$31KGraduation rate85%Acceptance rate76%
• Texas Tech UniversityLubbock, TXPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$17KGraduation rate60%Acceptance rate69%
• The University of TulsaTulsa, OKPrivate, non-profit · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$23KGraduation rate72%Acceptance rate36%
• The University of OklahomaNorman, OKPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$21KGraduation rate67%Acceptance rate80%
• Missouri University of Science and TechnologyRolla, MOPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$14KGraduation rate64%Acceptance rate79%
• University of HoustonHouston, TXPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$16KGraduation rate59%Acceptance rate65%
• Montana Technological UniversityButte, MTPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$14KGraduation rate46%Acceptance rate91%

• Louisiana State UniversityBaton Rouge, LAPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$15KGraduation rate68%Acceptance rate75%
• University of Alaska FairbanksFairbanks, AKPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$11KGraduation rate29%Acceptance rate76%
• University of Louisiana at LafayetteLafayette, LAPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$11KGraduation rate44%Acceptance rate68%
• The University of Texas Permian BasinOdessa, TXPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$9,632Graduation rate49%Acceptance rate88%
• New Mexico Institute of Mining and TechnologySocorro, NMPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$14KGraduation rate49%Acceptance rate80%
• West Virginia UniversityMorgantown, WVPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$13KGraduation rate56%Acceptance rate84%
• University of WyomingLaramie, WYPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$13KGraduation rate54%Acceptance rate96%
• University of North DakotaGrand Forks, NDPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$16KGraduation rate55%Acceptance rate81%
• University of KansasLawrence, KSPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$19KGraduation rate63%Acceptance rate93%
• Texas A&M University – KingsvilleKingsville, TXPublic · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$15KGraduation rate28%Acceptance rate77%

• Marietta CollegeMarietta, OHPrivate, non-profit · 4-yearAvg cost after aid$20KGraduation rate61%Acceptance rate71%

Top 50 petroleum engineering universities in the world

The results are in, McDougall School of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Tulsa tops the list of the world’s best universities for Oil, Gas, and Petroleum engineering, according to the results of the 2017 CEOWORLD magazine university rankings. University of Aberdeen is number two.

The United States continues to dominate the list, with 15 universities in the top 35; the United Kingdom is the second best performing country, with six universities.

China, meanwhile, has 4 ranked universities; India and Norway have two; Austria, Denmark, France, Italy, Greece, and the Netherlands each have one.

Rank	University	Country	Score
1	McDougall School of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Tulsa	US	98.7
2	University of Aberdeen	UK	98.5
3	Department Petroleum Engineering at Montanuniversität Leoben	Austria	98.3
4	John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University	US	97.9
5	IFP (Institut Français du Pétrole)	France	97.6
6	Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin	US	97.2
7	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	97.1
8	Petroleum Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines	US	95.8
9	Polytechnic University of Turin (Politecnico di Torino)	Italy	95.7
10	Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at the Texas A&M University	US	95.5
11	Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma	US	95.4
12	Robert Gordon University (RGU)	UK	95.2
13	Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette	US	95.1
14	Department of Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology	US	93.7
15	Swanson School of Engineeringat the University of Pittsburgh	US	93.6
16	Technical University of Denmark (DTU)	Denmark	93.5
17	Department of Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology	US	93.4
18	Xi’an Shiyou University Petroleum Engineering	China	93.1
19	Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University	US	92.9
20	Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)	Norway	92.8
21	Department of Energy Resources Engineering at the Stanford University	US	92.6
22	China University of Petroleum	China	92.1
23	Imperial College	UK	91.8
24	Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University	US	91.7
25	Heriot Watt Institute of Petroleum Engineering	UK	91.3
26	Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering at Louisiana State University (LSU)	US	90.7
27	East China University of Science and Technology	China	88.6
28	University of Petroleum & Energy Studies Dehradun	India	88.5
29	Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California	US	88.1
30	The University of Stavanger	Norway	86.8
31	Technical University of Crete	Greece	85.7
32	Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (or PDPU), Gujarat	India	82.9
33	Teesside University	UK	82.7
34	School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds	UK	82.4
35	Liaoning Shihua University (LSHU)	China	82.1