Posted on 08/06/2012 4:42:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Just three years ago, petroleum engineering wasn't an especially hot major for college students looking to enter a field with plentiful jobs.
How things have changed.
Today, the oil patch and active drilling in the Eagle Ford Shale is convincing more students that a job in the energy field is the way to go, experts said.
A recent study of 60,000 college students, including 2,400 in Texas, by Universum, a Stockholm-based company, found that students view jobs at oil and gas companies as much more desirable than even a year ago.
Top salaries paid by energy companies are making energy jobs a hot ticket on college campuses.
The average salary for spring graduates in petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University was $87,743 a year. The maximum salary offered was $113,000 a year.
“Every oil company listed in our survey — all the top ones — increased in their attractiveness to students last year,” said Vicki Lynn, senior vice president of employer branding at Universum's U.S. headquarters in New York.
Oil and gas jobs in Texas, specifically, are seen as more attractive to students.
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There's also an uptick in hiring by the oil and gas industry in mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering departments, [Tadeusz Patzek] said.
Although UT Austin had sought to limit enrollment in its Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department, the school decided to admit more in the face of so much demand.
In 2012, Patzek said the university's petroleum engineering department sought 80 students, admitted 111 and rejected about 700 applicants.
(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...
Lots of jobs in exploration here in Fort Collins, CO
We just had a guy move in from TN and is working the fields.
Let’s get fracking!
Ping for later.
If anybody has an extra $15,000 lying around to pay for surgery that could get my mind and body out of the 'stasis' category and back into the 'active' category, I'll go to college within 2 months of having it done because by then I should be pretty sharp.
/half sarcasm (half because parathyroid disease really does suck)
Go tell a young man in North Dakota making $60K that he needs union representation and he'll laugh you out of the oil patch.
Texas is looking better to move to.
My only problem would be making a couple grand so I can buy a truck and head down there with a solid plan and a few thousand in my account.
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