根據世界日報的一篇報導，在美國石油工程科系可是所有工科中起薪最高的，下列則是2009年US News & World Report針對美國石油工程科系所做的大學排名調查:(而前15名大多仍是名校)

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
2. Stanford University, CA
3. University of California-Berkeley, CA
4. Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
5. University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, IL
6. California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
7. Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
8. University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA
9. Cornell University Ithaca, NY
9. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor MI
11. U of California-San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA
11. U of Texas-Austin (Cockrell), TX
13. Texas A&M Univ-College Station (Look), TX
13. U of California-Los Angeles (Samueli), CA
15. Purdue U-West Lafayette, IN
15. U of Wisconsin-Madison WI
17. U of Maryland-College Park (Clark), MD
18. Princeton Univ, NJ
19. U of California-Santa Barbara, CA
20. Northwestern Univ (Mcormick) Evanston, IL
21. Columbia Univ(Fu Foundation), NY
22. Harvard Uni Cambridge, MA
23. Pennsylvania State U (PA)
24. U of Florida Gainesville, FL
24. U of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN
24. U of Washington Seattle, WA
27. Johns Hopkins Uni Baltimore, MD
28. Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA
29. Ohio State Uni Columbus, OH
30. North Carolina State Uni Raleigh, NC
30. U of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
32. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY
32. Uni of California-Davis (CA)
32. Uni of Rochester (NY)
35. Duke Uni Durham, NC
35. Rice Uni Houston, TX
37. U of California-Irvine (Samueli), CA
38. U of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
39. U of Colorado-Boulder, CO
39. Yale Uni New Haven, CT
41. Iowa State Univ Ames, IA
42. Lehigh Univ Bethlehem, PA
42. Vanderbilt Univ Nashville, TN
44. Boston Univ, MA
45. Arizona State Uni(Fulton) Tempe, AZ
46. U of Delaware Newark, DE
46. Washington Uni in St. Louis (server), MO
48. U of Pittsburgh, PA
49. Case Western Reserve Univ Cleveland, OH
49. U of Massachusetts-Amherst, MA
49. U of Notre Dame, IN
52. Brown Uni, RI
52. Drexel Uni, PA
52. Rutgers, the State Univ of New Jersey, NJ
52. U at Buffalo, NY
52. U of Arizona , AZ
57. Dartmouth College (Thayer) , NH
57. SUNY-Stony Brook , NY
57. Dartmouth College (Thayer) , NH
59. Michigan State U, MI
59. U of Utah, UT