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2023 Best Value Mining & Petroleum Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$17,340 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$53,687 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Mining & Petroleum Technology Associate Degree School for You

Mining & Petroleum Technology is the #46 most popular major in the country with 410 degrees and certificates awarded in 2021-2022.

Today's trade school students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Trade College Search has created its Best Value Mining & Petroleum Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for mining & petroleum tech students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Mining & Petroleum Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Check out the mining & petroleum tech associate degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Middle Atlantic Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Mining & Petroleum Technology

#1

Lackawanna College

Scranton, PA

Our 2023 rankings named Lackawanna College the best value school in the Middle Atlantic Region for mining & petroleum technology students working on their associate degree. Lackawanna College is a small private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Scranton.

Lackawanna College undergraduate students pay an average of $17,340 in tuition and fees each year. While working on their Associate Degree, mining & petroleum tech majors at Lackawanna College accumulate an average of around $13,737 in student debt.

Read full report on Mining & Petroleum Technology at Lackawanna College

The excellent associate degree programs at Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value mining & petroleum technology schools in the Middle Atlantic Region . Located in the rural area of Pleasant Gap, CPI is a public school with a small student population.

Read full report on Mining & Petroleum Technology at Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology

Best Mining & Petroleum Technology Colleges by State

Explore the best mining & petroleum technology schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 22

Mining & Petroleum Technology is one of 18 different types of trade school programs to choose from.

Mining & Petroleum Tech Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Petroleum Technology/Technician 392
Mining Technology/Technician 15
Other Mining & Petroleum Technologies 3

Majors Similar to Mining & Petroleum Tech

Related Major Annual Graduates
Industrial Production Technology 11,288
Electromechanical Engineering Technology 10,780
Environmental Control Technology 9,376
Drafting & Design Engineering Technology 8,822
Electronics Engineering Technology 8,347

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Jeffrey Beall.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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