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Ok now I am getting impatient

My unfair, nonPC, and uniformed suspicion is that some CU graduates might have parents who are mega successful.

But daddy's success doesn't always transfer to the younger generation.

The younger generation with the trust fund may not throw tens of millions of dollars around like daddy does. Daddy writes tuition checks to CU and big donations to his alma matter.

The kid with the CU diploma has a comfortable job, a nice home, foreign travel, and pursuits more in tune with Boulder values, like spending discretionary cash on enjoying the great outdoors and other quality of life activities. They may prioritize giving to the Red Cross or Peace Corps over the football stadium. CU gets three or four or five figures, not six or seven.

My other working theory is that CU is missing out on petro dollars. State law gives School of Mines permission to crank out petroleum engineers, but not CU. Solich and Benson are the exception. If the voters and politicans knew what was best for CU, they'd allow CU to replicate the the School of Mines curriculum in Boulder.

CU is legally excluded from granting petroleum engineering degrees and is somewhat left out of the world's biggest money industry
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So instead it has to make due churning out lawyers, accountants, astronauts and other government employees, middle managers, technology geeks, and small business owners.

Solich is a nice exception to have. He's a CU business school grad. I knew that CU didn't have a Petroleum Engineering degree but was unaware that it was legally prohibited from offering one. At this point it would be very hard to crack the cachet of Mines. One of the top 3 Petr Eng schools in the country. And in the Rocky Mtn Time Zone its name is gold. Competes a bit with Tex A&M in the Houston market. BTW, there are some interesting Oil and Gas pedigrees in Denver - the highly successful CEOs of two Denver-based independent E&P comanies are both geology grads from Western State.
 
Solich is a nice exception to have. He's a CU business school grad. I knew that CU didn't have a Petroleum Engineering degree but was unaware that it was legally prohibited from offering one. At this point it would be very hard to crack the cachet of Mines. One of the top 3 Petr Eng schools in the country. And in the Rocky Mtn Time Zone its name is gold. Competes a bit with Tex A&M in the Houston market. BTW, there are some interesting Oil and Gas pedigrees in Denver - the highly successful CEOs of two Denver-based independent E&P comanies are both geology grads from Wasted State.

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Originally Posted by PAHIBuff

Solich is a nice exception to have. He's a CU business school grad. I knew that CU didn't have a Petroleum Engineering degree but was unaware that it was legally prohibited from offering one. At this point it would be very hard to crack the cachet of Mines. One of the top 3 Petr Eng schools in the country. And in the Rocky Mtn Time Zone its name is gold. Competes a bit with Tex A&M in the Houston market. BTW, there are some interesting Oil and Gas pedigrees in Denver - the highly successful CEOs of two Denver-based independent E&P comanies are both geology grads from Wasted State.



He said Geology grad the Wasted fix seems a bit redundant.
 
At this point it would be very hard to crack the cachet of Mines. One of the top 3 Petr Eng schools in the country. And in the Rocky Mtn Time Zone its name is gold. Competes a bit with Tex A&M in the Houston market.

Mines #1 in the world here.
http://www.collegerag.net/top-10-worlds-best-petroleum-engineering-colleges/

#3 here
pu3ysa5y.jpg


Note that 3 of the top 10 are public higher ed institutions in Texas, each with massive football facilities investments.

When it comes to petro dollars and petroleum engineering degree options, Texas > Colorado.

@ Stanford shills. LOL at #5. Obviously a bogus ranking source.
Here's a bone..furd #1 on this list.
http://education-portal.com/articles/List_of_Top_Petroleum_Engineering_Schools_and_Colleges.html
Obviously a bogus source because UH is listed and Rice is not.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/25/news/economy/engineering-best-paid-jobs/index.html


CU should be on this gravy train, damnit.
 
Mines #1 in the world here.
http://www.collegerag.net/top-10-worlds-best-petroleum-engineering-colleges/

#3 here
pu3ysa5y.jpg


Note that 3 of the top 10 are public higher ed institutions in Texas, each with massive football facilities investments.

When it comes to petro dollars and petroleum engineering degree options, Texas > Colorado.

@ Stanford shills. LOL at #5. Obviously a bogus ranking source.
Here's a bone..furd #1 on this list.
http://education-portal.com/articles/List_of_Top_Petroleum_Engineering_Schools_and_Colleges.html
Obviously a bogus source because UH is listed and Rice is not.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/25/news/economy/engineering-best-paid-jobs/index.html


CU should be on this gravy train, damnit.


Mines is way ahead of UT and, at worst, tied with TAMU. Any interview, in many many offices, is the Mine's guys to lose. Jus sayin. And I'm not a P.E. so got no dog in the fight. When Mines talks people listen. It's an entree.
 
He said Geology grad the Wasted fix seems a bit redundant.

A hand lens, a hash pipe, and a bandana......LOL. In the new world of Resource Plays, geology is merging ever more closely with Reservoir Engineering. The old days of the nine-section structural prospect seem like churning butter in the 1780s. The paradox is that industry did all the hard stuff before we did the easy stuff. God bless the drilling engineers for the horizontal revolution.
 
Mines #1 in the world here.
http://www.collegerag.net/top-10-worlds-best-petroleum-engineering-colleges/

#3 here
pu3ysa5y.jpg


Note that 3 of the top 10 are public higher ed institutions in Texas, each with massive football facilities investments.

When it comes to petro dollars and petroleum engineering degree options, Texas > Colorado.

@ Stanford shills. LOL at #5. Obviously a bogus ranking source.
Here's a bone..furd #1 on this list.
http://education-portal.com/articles/List_of_Top_Petroleum_Engineering_Schools_and_Colleges.html
Obviously a bogus source because UH is listed and Rice is not.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/25/news/economy/engineering-best-paid-jobs/index.html


CU should be on this gravy train, damnit.

Laughing at USC being on that list. Didn't even know they had one.
 
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