Mining and Petroleum Technologies/Technicians
432 students earn a mining and petroleum technologies/technicians credential each year across 34 US colleges. Earnings below are the median for each school's graduates one and five years after finishing; debt is the median federal loan balance at completion.
- Typical earnings, 1 year out
- $52,842
- Typical earnings, 5 years out
- $71,690
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Bachelor's programs — 2 colleges
CollegeGrads / yearEarnings 1 yearEarnings 5 yearsDebt
Associate programs — 24 colleges
CollegeGrads / yearEarnings 1 yearEarnings 5 yearsDebt
1Nicholls State UniversityThibodaux, Louisiana34$63,5551 year out$75,285$18,8482Fletcher Technical Community CollegeSchriever, Louisiana17—1 year out$60,205—3Houston City CollegeHouston, Texas13$47,1461 year out$44,842$31,1384Oklahoma State University Institute of TechnologyOkmulgee, Oklahoma11$59,3571 year out——5University of the Virgin IslandsCharlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands10—1 year out——6Lewis and Clark Community CollegeGodfrey, Illinois8$58,7871 year out$72,698—7Palo Alto CollegeSan Antonio, Texas7—1 year out——8Bismarck State CollegeBismarck, North Dakota6—1 year out$106,364—9Lackawanna CollegeScranton, Pennsylvania6$63,3771 year out$74,122$12,00010Western Texas CollegeSnyder, Texas4—1 year out——11Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and TechnologyPleasant Gap, Pennsylvania4—1 year out——12Southwest Mississippi Community CollegeSummit, Mississippi3—1 year out——13Williston State CollegeWilliston, North Dakota3—1 year out——14Stark State CollegeNorth Canton, Ohio3—1 year out——15West Virginia Northern Community CollegeWheeling, West Virginia3—1 year out——16Pierpont Community and Technical CollegeFairmont, West Virginia3—1 year out$91,275—17Bossier Parish Community CollegeBossier City, Louisiana2—1 year out$86,196—18Coastal Bend CollegeBeeville, Texas2—1 year out——19Navarro CollegeCorsicana, Texas2—1 year out$59,525—20Lone Star College SystemThe Woodlands, Texas2—1 year out——21Aims Community CollegeGreeley, Colorado1—1 year out——22Seward County Community CollegeLiberal, Kansas1—1 year out——23University of Pittsburgh-BradfordBradford, Pennsylvania0—1 year out$69,850—24University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh CampusPittsburgh, Pennsylvania——1 year out$69,850—
Certificate programs — 23 colleges
CollegeGrads / yearEarnings 1 yearEarnings 5 yearsDebt
1Uintah Basin Technical CollegeRoosevelt, Utah137—1 year out——2Fletcher Technical Community CollegeSchriever, Louisiana35—1 year out——3Palo Alto CollegeSan Antonio, Texas19—1 year out——4Lewis and Clark Community CollegeGodfrey, Illinois12$61,6591 year out——5The University of Texas Permian BasinOdessa, Texas11—1 year out——6South Louisiana Community CollegeLafayette, Louisiana11—1 year out——7Ivy Tech Community CollegeIndianapolis, Indiana9—1 year out——8Central Technology CenterDrumright, Oklahoma8—1 year out——9Seward County Community CollegeLiberal, Kansas6—1 year out——10Western Texas CollegeSnyder, Texas5—1 year out——11Mountain Empire Community CollegeBig Stone Gap, Virginia5—1 year out——12University of Alaska AnchorageAnchorage, Alaska4—1 year out——13Coastal Bend CollegeBeeville, Texas3—1 year out——14West Virginia Northern Community CollegeWheeling, West Virginia3—1 year out——15Williston State CollegeWilliston, North Dakota2—1 year out——16Lackawanna CollegeScranton, Pennsylvania2—1 year out——17Navarro CollegeCorsicana, Texas2—1 year out$54,529—18Pierpont Community and Technical CollegeFairmont, West Virginia2—1 year out——19Aims Community CollegeGreeley, Colorado1—1 year out——20Southeast New Mexico CollegeCarlsbad, New Mexico1—1 year out——21Stark State CollegeNorth Canton, Ohio1—1 year out——22Lone Star College SystemThe Woodlands, Texas1—1 year out——23Laredo CollegeLaredo, Texas——1 year out$23,321—
US Department of Education College Scorecard field-of-study data (4-digit CIP). Graduates are conferrals in the most recent IPEDS year; earnings cover federally-aided completers who are working and not enrolled; medians for small programs are privacy-suppressed (—).






























