What schools do the big oil companies recruit?

<p>Another note, oil companies don’t even look at you unless you have a masters in geology, so if anyone was working for an oil company with a just a bach, they were most likely a mud logger which they do bottom of the barrel tech work.</p>

<p>Usually oil companies look for people with a 3.0 or above, some like shell require a 3.2. Also, it is not about people with the highest GPA. Shell especially recruits people who are able to communicate effectively and only in rare instances they will hire PhDs who have self isolation issues and poor attitudes. Petroleum engineering, depending on the company you work for of course, can be a more face to face kind of job. You will have to deliver presentations to your supervisors instead of spending all day in chair like some other disciplines. Put it this way, a lack of confidence or ability to communicate on various levels will hinder you more than any academic records. Petroleum engineering hopefuls learn this very quickly when in their intro Eng classes they have to give presentations based on oil supply and production or various countries and other nations. What is sad is you see kids, who are the make the highest grades on exams, and course work, who can’t even put sentences together or try to do the least amount of speaking as possible. So, if you are into self isolation, please, stay out of the oil industry. You will have various communicating experiences like trying to talk to someone with a 3rd grade education, to talking to your senior level advisor who hold 3 Phds. Please do yourself justice, and become a computer engineer if you can’t speak, lol.</p>

<p>I would say it is a whole lot easier. The Oil State Universities have many alumni that come back and recruit and also own or manage oil companies. UT is the ultimate place to be if your heart is on the oil idustry. 25& of all the PhD’s in the world in PeteEng graduated from UT. So, I consider that significant.</p>

<p>so is coming from a top school going to be a problem then? and also having a PhD?</p>

<p>What school are you talking about when you say “TOP SCHOOL”? No, a top school won’t be a problem. What school is it may I ask? When I think of top school for engineering, I think of MIT, Caltech, or Stanford.</p>

<p>ok a top school that isnt well known in engineering…MIT, Stanford aint easy mate</p>