Graduate School Programs

If you’re interested in the science and engineering side of the gas and oil industry, then a good bit of education will be necessary. The best and highest paying jobs are often given to those with Master’s degrees. Workers are in in short supply but demand is high as the oil and gas industry scrambles to find new oil sources.

Visit the websites of these schools for more information on their Petroleum and Chemical Engineering program:

• Penn State University
• Texas Tech University
• Colorado School of Mines
• New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Alaska Fairbanks
• University of Missouri-Rolla
• University of Oklahoma
• University of Wyoming
• University of Texas at Austin
• Stanford University
• University of Southern California
• University of Tulsa
• University of Kansas
• University of Houston
• Louisiana State University
• University of Connecticut
• Texas A&M University

Visit the websites of these schools for more information on their Geology or Earth Sciences graduate programs:

• Alaska Fairbanks
• University of Oregon
• University of California-Davis
• California Institute of Technology
• University of California-Berkeley
• California State University-Los Angeles (UCLA)
• California State University-Bakersfield
• Hawaii at Manoa
• Stanford University
• Rice University
• Southern Methodist University
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Texas at El Paso
• University of New Orleans
• University of Louisiana at Monroe
• Oklahoma State University
• University of Texas at Arlington
• Louisiana State University
• University of Tulsa
• University of Oklahoma
• University of South Carolina
• University of South Florida
• Colorado School of Mines
• New Mexico State University
• New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
• Montana Tech
• South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
• University of North Dakota
• Montana State University
• University of Montana
• University of Wyoming
• Virginia Tech
• Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
• University of Pittsburgh

And there are other programs as well. This list provides you with an excellent starting point.