Courses

Thesis Program

For the Thesis Program, thirty (30) semester hours of graduate credit with a minimum GPA of 3.0 are required as follow:

a minimum of 12 credit hours of 500 and/or 400G level graduate courses in the Petroleum Engineering Department with 6 of these credit hours being two core department courses that will be identified for the student upon acceptance into the program. [Note that no more than 6 graduate hours may be below the 500 level.];
6 credit hours achieved by the successful passing of two college-level core graduate courses: ENGR 501 and MCHE 508;
a minimum of 3 credit hours of either mathematics, statistics, or the sciences;
a minimum of 3 credit hours of additional graduate courses from either the Petroleum Engineering Department or another engineering department;
enrollment in the Petroleum Engineering Graduate Seminar course every semester the student is within the program at UL Lafayette; and
a minimum of 6 credit hours of thesis work and a thesis approved by the graduate committee.

For the Non-Thesis Program, thirty-six (36) semester hours of graduate credit with a minimum GPA of 3.0 are required as follow:

a minimum of 18 credit hours of 500 and/or 400G level graduate courses in the Petroleum Engineering Department with 6 credit hours being two core department courses that will be identified for the student upon acceptance into the program. [Note that no more than 6 graduate credit hours may be below the 500 level.];
6 credit hours achieved by the successful passing of two college-level core graduate courses: ENGR 501 and MCHE 508;
a minimum of 6 credit hours of either mathematics, statistics, or the sciences, and
a minimum of 6 credit hours of additional graduate courses from either the Petroleum Engineering Department or another engineering department;
3 hours of a research component and the submission of a research report;
satisfactory performance on a comprehensive exam to be given during the graduation semester.