Top Petroleum engineering Universities in 2023-24

About Petroleum Engineering:

Petroleum engineering is an engineering field that is concerned with the activities related to the production of hydrocarbons. These hydrocarbons can either be crude oil or natural gas. Petroleum engineering is related to Geoscience and advanced from Mining Engineering and Geology.

Petroleum Engineering includes the advancement of techniques to remove oil and gas, making arrangements to drill in oil and gas fields; creating approaches to infuse water, synthetic compounds, gases, or steam into an oil reserve, and much more. There are numerous petrol organizations working around the world, which sets out better opportunities for Petroleum Engineers. These engineers foster new innovations for the creation of hydrocarbons from oil shale and seaward oil and gas fields.

Duties Of a Petroleum engineer:

Petroleum engineers typically design equipment that helps to extract oil and gases in the most profitable manner. They even develop ways by which one can inject water, gases, steam, and chemicals into oil reserves to force out more oil. Along with determining productive locations; they take proper responsibility for safety and efficiency.

Through testing and surveys; petroleum engineers evaluate the production of wells. In order to connect a larger area of an oil and gas deposit to a single well; they use computer-controlled drilling. There is a lot of oil wastage and hence it is the duty of a petroleum engineer to overlook the removal of all waste and equipment from sites

Qualities of a good Petroleum engineer:

A petroleum engineer must have good technical and analytical skills.
They must possess abilities to solve complex problems.
Creative as well as teamwork skills
Flexibility and the ability to work on a range of projects
Ability to work in offshore environments

Popular Bachelor’s degree options in Petroleum engineer:

Petroleum Engineering	Petrochemical Engineering
Applied Petroleum Engineering	Petroleum Refinery Engineering
Petroleum Reservoir and Production Engineering	Reservoir Engineering
Production Engineering	Well Completions
Well Log Interpretation	Basic Drilling Engineering
Petroleum Geology	Petroleum Engineering Computing

Popular Master’s degree options after Bachelors in Petroleum engineer:

Petroleum Exploration	Petroleum Refinery Engineering
Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Engineering	Structural Geology
Reservoir Fluid Flow	Drilling Engineering
Drilling Fluids	Electrical Circuits
Transport Phenomenon of Petroleum Engineering	Reservoir Engineering

Popular Doctorate degree options after Masters in Petroleum engineer:

Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering	Ph.D. in Petroleum Geoscience
Ph.D. in Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering	Ph.D. in Petroleum Industry Management

Duration of Petroleum engineering Engineering degree :

Country	Bachelors in Petroleum Engineering	Masters in Petroleum Engineering	PhD in Petroleum Engineering
USA / CANADA	4	2	4-6
GERMANY / UK / AUSTRALIA	3	1	3-4
OTHER COUNTRIES	3	2	3-4

Career options after Masters Degree in Petroleum engineer:

Expert Reservoir Engineer	Refinery Operations Manager
Marketing Manager	Completions Engineers
Production Engineers	Reservoir Engineers
Drilling Engineers	Performance analyst
Project engineer	Field engineer

Average Salaries for Petroleum engineering graduates :

USA –206,500 USD

Canada – 60,898 USD

UK – 75,762.66 USD

Germany – 117,607.82 USD

Australia – 60,512.43 USD

Top 50 Universities in the world for Petroleum Engineering based on ranking (QS/THE/Other) :

Rank QS	Rank THE	Rank Shanghai	University Name	Country	Bachelor courses	Master courses
1	12		National University of Singapore (NUS)	SINGAPORE	Click here	Click here
2	22		University of Texas at Austin	USA	Click here	Click here
3		35	Technical University of Denmark	DENMARK	Click here	Click here
4	3	3	Stanford University	USA	Click here	Click here
5			Texas A&M University	USA	Click here	Click here
6	14		Imperial College London	UK	Click here	Click here
7			King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals	SAUDI ARABIA	Click here	Click here
8			University of Strathclyde	UK	Click here	Click here
9			University of Alberta	CANADA	Click here	Click here
10			Heriot-Watt University	UK	Click here	Click here
11			Middle East Technical University	TURKEY	Click here	Click here
11			The University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA	Click here	Click here
13	21		Delft University of Technology	NETHERLANDS	Click here	Click here
14	46		The University of Manchester	UK	Click here	Click here
15			Politecnico di Torino	ITALY	Click here	Click here
16			University of Surrey	UK	Click here	Click here
17			Sharif University of Technology	IRAN	Click here	Click here
18	48		The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	AUSTRALIA	Click here	Click here
19		19	Colorado School of Mines	USA	Click here	Click here
20			KTH Royal Institute of Technology	SWEDEN	Click here	Click here
21			Khalifa University of Science and Technology	UAE	Click here	Click here
22			Aalborg University	DENMARK	Click here	Click here
23			National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University	RUSSIA	Click here	Click here
23			Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP)	MALAYSIA	Click here	Click here
25		17	Pennsylvania State University	USA	Click here	Click here
26			University of Tehran	IRAN	Click here	Click here
27			The University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA	Click here	Click here
28			Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)	BRAZIL	Click here	Click here
29			Universidade de São Paulo	BRAZIL	Click here	Click here
30			Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)	INDIA	Click here	Click here
31			University of Southern California	USA	Click here	Click here
32			Amirkabir University of Technology	IRAN	Click here	Click here
32			Lomonosov Moscow State University	RUSSIA	Click here	Click here
34	16		King Abdullah University of Science & Technology	SAUDI ARABIA	Click here	Click here
35			China University of Petroleum，Beijing	CHINA	Click here	Click here
36			Istanbul Technical University	TURKEY	Click here	Click here
36			University of Leeds	UK	Click here	Click here
38			Norwegian University of Science And Technology	NORWAY	Click here	Click here
38			Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	MEXICO	Click here	Click here
40			University of Oklahoma	USA	Click here	Click here
41			Universiti Teknologi Malaysia	MALAYSIA	Click here	Click here
42			Universidad Industrial de Santander – UIS	COLOMBIA	Click here	Click here
43			Texas Tech University	USA	Click here	Click here
44		15	Curtin University	AUSTRALIA	Click here	Click here
44			Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)	ARGENTINA	Click here	Click here
46			University of Calgary	CANADA	Click here	Click here
47			University of Lisbon	PORTUGAL	Click here	Click here
48			Bogaziçi Üniversitesi	TURKEY	Click here	Click here
49			Cairo University	EGYPT	Click here	Click here
50			Universidad Nacional de Colombia	COLOMBIA	Click here	Click here
	1		Harvard University	USA	Click here	Click here
	2	24	University of Oxford	USA	Click here	Click here
	4		Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	Click here	Click here
	5		University of California, Berkeley	USA	Click here	Click here
	6	28	University of Cambridge	UK	Click here	Click here
	7	46	California Institute of Technology	USA	Click here	Click here
	8		Princeton University	USA	Click here	Click here
	9		ETH Zurich	SWITZERLAND	Click here	Click here
	9		Peking University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
	10		University of California, Los Angeles	USA	Click here	Click here
	11		Georgia Institute of Technology	USA	Click here	Click here
	15	1	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	SINGAPORE	Click here	Click here
	16		Tsinghua University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
	17		Yale University	USA	Click here	Click here
	18		Carnegie Mellon University	USA	Click here	Click here
	19	48	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	USA	Click here	Click here
	20		École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	SWITZERLAND	Click here	Click here
	23		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	USA	Click here	Click here
	24		Technical University of Munich	GERMANY	Click here	Click here
	25		Cornell University	USA	Click here	Click here
	26	25	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	HONGKONG	Click here	Click here
	27	33	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	SOUTH KOREA	Click here	Click here
	28		University of Toronto	CANADA	Click here	Click here
	29		Columbia University	USA	Click here	Click here
	30		RWTH Aachen University	GERMANY	Click here	Click here
	31		University of Science and Technology of China	CHINA	Click here	Click here
	32		The University of Tokyo	JAPAN	Click here	Click here
	33		Purdue University West Lafayette	USA	Click here	Click here
	34	21	Zhejiang University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
	35		University of California, Santa Barbara	USA	Click here	Click here
	36		Shanghai Jiao Tong University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
	37		Northwestern University	USA	Click here	Click here
	38		University of Pennsylvania	USA	Click here	Click here
	39	26	Seoul National University	SOUTH KOREA	Click here	Click here
	40		University of California, San Diego	USA	Click here	Click here
	41		Johns Hopkins University	USA	Click here	Click here
	42		University of Hong Kong	HONGKONG	Click here	Click here
	42		UCL	UK	Click here	Click here
	44		University of Wisconsin-Madison	USA	Click here	Click here
	45		University of British Columbia	CANADA	Click here	Click here
	46	36	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)	SOUTH KOREA	Click here	Click here
	49		Duke University	USA	Click here	Click here
	50	34	University of Washington	USA	Click here	Click here
		2	Tsinghua University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA	Click here	Click here
		5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	SWITZERLAND	Click here	Click here
		6	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		7	South China University of Technology	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		8	Peking University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		9	University of Science and Technology of China	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		10	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA	Click here	Click here
		11	Xi’an Jiaotong University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		12	University of California, Berkeley	USA	Click here	Click here
		13	University of Chicago	USA	Click here	Click here
		14	The University of Texas at Austin	USA	Click here	Click here
		15	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology	SOUTH KOREA	Click here	Click here
		17	Northwestern University	USA	Click here	Click here
		18	Tianjin University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		19	Soochow University (China)	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		20	Imperial College London	UK	Click here	Click here
		22	National University of Singapore	SINGAPORE	Click here	Click here
		22	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		27	University of Wollongong	AUSTRALIA	Click here	Click here
		29	Wuhan University of Technology	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		30	Sungkyunkwan University	SOUTH KOREA	Click here	Click here
		31	Fudan University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		32	Harbin Institute of Technology	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		37	King Abdulaziz University	SAUDI ARABIA	Click here	Click here
		38	The University of New South Wales	AUSTRALIA	Click here	Click here
		39	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	GERMANY	Click here	Click here
		40	Nanjing University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		41	Monash University	AUSTRALIA	Click here	Click here
		42	City University of Hong Kong	HONGKONG	Click here	Click here
		43	University of Maryland, College Park	USA	Click here	Click here
		44	Beihang University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		45	Dalian University of Technology	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		47	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	GERMANY	Click here	Click here
		49	Nankai University	CHINA	Click here	Click here
		50	University of Waterloo	CANADA	Click here	Click here

Top universities for PETROLEUM Engineering in USA, CANADA, UK, GERMANY, AUSTRALIA :

Top universities for PETROLEUM Engineering in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rank QS	Rank THE	University Name	Bachelor courses	Master courses
1		University of Texas at Austin	Click here	Click here
2	2	Stanford University	Click here	Click here
3		Texas A&M University
4		Colorado School of Mines	Click here	Click here
5		Pennsylvania State University	Click here	Click here
	1	Harvard University	Click here	Click here
	3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Click here	Click here
	4	University of California, Berkeley	Click here	Click here
	5	California Institute of Technology	Click here

Top universities for PETROLEUM Engineering in CANADA

Rank QS	Rank THE	University Name	Bachelor courses	Master courses
1	5	University of Alberta
2		University of Calgary	Click here	Click here
3		Dalhousie University	Click here	Click here
4		Memorial University of Newfoundland	Click here	Click here
	1	University of Toronto	Click here	Click here
	2	University of British Columbia	Click here	Click here
	3	McGill University	Click here	Click here
	4	University of Waterloo	Click here	Click here

Top universities for PETROLEUM Engineering in UNITED KINGDOM

Rank QS	Rank THE	University Name	Bachelor courses	Master courses
1	3	Imperial College London	Click here
2		University of Strathclyde	Click here	Click here
3		Heriot-Watt University
4		The University of Manchester	Click here	Click here
5		University of Surrey	Click here	Click here
	1	University of Oxford	Click here	Click here
	2	University of Cambridge	Click here	Click here
	4	University of Edinburgh	Click here	Click here
	5	University of Sheffield	Click here	Click here

Top universities for PETROLEUM Engineering in GERMANY

Rank QS	Rank THE	University Name	Bachelor courses	Master courses
1		Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg
2		Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
	1	Technical University of Munich
	2	RWTH Aachen University		Click here
	3	Technical University of Berlin
	4	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany	Click here	Click here
	5	TU Dresden

Top universities for PETROLEUM Engineering in AUSTRALIA

Rank QS	Rank THE	University Name	Bachelor courses	Master courses
1		The University of Adelaide	Click here	Click here
2	1	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	Click here	Click here
3	5	The University of Queensland	Leuven	Leuven
4		Curtin University	Click here	Click here
5		The University of Western Australia	Click here	Click here
	2	University of Sydney	Click here	Click here
	3	Monash University	Click here	Click here
	4	University of Melbourne

FAQS :

Admission Requirements for Data Science Engineering Universities :

Bachelors

Students must have studied Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics in last 2 years of High School,
Students with more than 90% in high school can aim at TOP ranked Universities,
SAT Score of 1400 & above may be required for admissions to Universities in USA & CANADA,
Students should aim at securing 6.5/7 bands in IELTS or 110 in TOEFL to prove their English Proficiency

Masters

Students must have studied Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, related majors in Bachelor degree
Students with 80% & above or a GPA of 3.3 out of 4 can aim at TOP ranked Universities,
A High GRE score of 325 and above may be required,
Students should aim at securing 6.5/7 bands in IELTS or 110 in TOEFL to prove their English Proficiency

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