2025 Best General Petroleum Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in general petroleum engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #274 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for general petroleum engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 92 bachelor's degrees in general petroleum engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great General Petroleum Engineering School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Your choice of general petroleum engineering for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general petroleum engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other general petroleum engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general petroleum engineering related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general petroleum engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank General Petroleum Engineering Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Petroleum Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Petroleum Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in general petroleum engineering.

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Bachelor's in General Petroleum Engineering

1

Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

60 Annual Graduates

Colorado School of Mines is a great option for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in general petroleum engineering. Located in the suburb of Golden, Mines is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a bachelor’s in general petroleum engineering from Colorado School of Mines

2

University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

17 Annual Graduates

University of Wyoming is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in general petroleum engineering. UW is a fairly large public university located in the remote town of Laramie.More information about a bachelor’s in general petroleum engineering from University of Wyoming

3

Montana Technological University
Butte, MT

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

15 Annual Graduates

Montana Technological University is a great choice for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in general petroleum engineering. Located in the remote town of Butte, Montana Tech is a public university with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in general petroleum engineering from Montana Technological University

Best General Petroleum Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best general petroleum engineering schools for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Colorado	316	64
Montana	212	31
Wyoming	95	30

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Rankings in Majors Related to General Petroleum Engineering

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Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.