Best Petroleum Schools
Best Petroleum Schools
(OP)
What are the best petroleum colleges you've attended or you know about?
Petroleum-Schools.com ranks these schools as the top five:
1. Texas A & M University College Station
2. The University of Texas Austin
3. Texas Tech University
4. Colorado School of Mines
5. University of Oklahoma Norman
Would you agree with these ranking and what are the best petroleum schools in your opinion?
Petroleum-Schools.com ranks these schools as the top five:
1. Texas A & M University College Station
2. The University of Texas Austin
3. Texas Tech University
4. Colorado School of Mines
5. University of Oklahoma Norman
Would you agree with these ranking and what are the best petroleum schools in your opinion?





RE: Best Petroleum Schools
Tulsa, LSU, and Stanford ain't bad either.
It also depends on what field you want to specialize in. TAMU has always been reservoir school. UTexas more of a production school.
RE: Best Petroleum Schools
Everything we're talking about is U.S. I've seen good PetEng from University of Edmonton and University of Melbourne as well. I think the top 5 above is really the top 5 in the world (Texas Tech deserved #3 when Jim Lea was running the program, but when he left I'd call it #5 or 6 with Tulsa as #6 or 5).
David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei, Italian Physicist
RE: Best Petroleum Schools
When I was at TAMU we had a kid transfer into PetE Dept. from MIT's ME Dept. and were so impressed that he would choose A&M. I remember he complained there was way too much homework and the professors were too picky; making us take answers out to 3 and 4 decimal places. I'll never forget him saying: " a real university is more concerned with thinking processes rather than getting the actual numbers right". He flunked out; didn't make it through the second semester. Have never been impressed with MIT since then.
RE: Best Petroleum Schools
The Stanford alumni that I've worked with were Computer Science and Mech Eng. Neither was in any way special and both thought they deserved all kinds of special consideration because "they went to Stanford". I once worked with a PhD Chemist from Stanford who was impressive, but the undergrads I've worked with were lacking. Probably just bad luck.
David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei, Italian Physicist
RE: Best Petroleum Schools
RE: Best Petroleum Schools
I call it the "School of Mimes" for self preservation. I moved into a group that already had 13 engineers in 1994, and all 13 of them were from the Colorado School of Mines. Being a CU Denver alum I had to do something so when I walked into my first staff meeting I asked "Did it take very long to learn that 'inside the invisible box' trick at the school of mimes?". Two of them laughed, three got angry and the rest didn't have a clue what I was talking about. Number 4 on the list is about right.
David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei, Italian Physicist