"The number of university students graduating with degrees in petroleum engineering has fallen sharply in the past decade."
Well, this misses a major point. The University of Calgary, for example, in the heart of Canada's Oil Patch, cancelled its bachelor's program in oil and gas engineering circa 2021. Horrors!
It did this because only 10 students remained in the program (down from dozens in years past).
BUT students still can and do pursue the same petroleum training through other more attractively branded programs offered at the U of C. E.g. via the Energy Engineering degree, or via a petroleum engineering minor, or through graduate studies.
So, the students graduating with petroleum engineering expertise are still there. There may even be more than before. It is just that their degrees have different names, and a wider focus. Like how graduates / programs in Computer Science are declining, for Data Science or Information Technology instead.
"The number of university students graduating with degrees in petroleum engineering has fallen sharply in the past decade."
Well, this misses a major point. The University of Calgary, for example, in the heart of Canada's Oil Patch, cancelled its bachelor's program in oil and gas engineering circa 2021. Horrors!
It did this because only 10 students remained in the program (down from dozens in years past).
BUT students still can and do pursue the same petroleum training through other more attractively branded programs offered at the U of C. E.g. via the Energy Engineering degree, or via a petroleum engineering minor, or through graduate studies.
So, the students graduating with petroleum engineering expertise are still there. There may even be more than before. It is just that their degrees have different names, and a wider focus. Like how graduates / programs in Computer Science are declining, for Data Science or Information Technology instead.