Petroleum engineering enrollment is growing at a rate that hasn’t been seen since the early 1980s...
The number of incoming freshmen in petroleum engineering surged 55 percent, to 2,153 from 1,388 between the fall of 2011 and the fall of 2012...
“Petroleum engineering enrollment is growing at a rate that hasn’t been seen since the early 1980s...”
Yeah, I recall talking to an A&M PE grad of ‘84. He graduated with 350 other PE grads that year - only two got jobs. He was not one of them.
Today, he is a VP of Chevron, one of the smartest engineers I met.
Beware of the cycles in the O&G industry. I got laid off after 27 years.
Many forget history, which is doomed to repeat itself.