2022 Best Value Carpentry Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Carpentry Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Carpentry/Carpenter is the 563rd most popular major in the country with 4,262 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 557 carpentry/carpenter graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Carpentry Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in carpentry/carpenter. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality carpentry/carpenter programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the carpentry/carpenter program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Carpentry Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Carpentry Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Carpentry Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Carpentry/Carpenter (Income $48-$75k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Austin Community College District

Austin, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$8,877 Average Net Price

$39,571 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Austin Community College District. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Carpentry Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Austin Community College District is a large school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 42 ’s carpentry degrees in 2019-2020.

Austin Community College District did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Carpentry/Carpenter Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $8,877 for Southwest Region Carpentry students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Austin Community College District.

Full Austin Community College District Carpentry/Carpenter Report

#2

Vista College

El Paso, Texas

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vista College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Carpentry Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Vista College is a small private for-profit school situated in El Paso, Texas. It awarded 32 ’s carpentry degrees in 2019-2020.

Vista College also made our “Best Carpentry/Carpenter Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2.

Read more about Carpentry/Carpenter at Vista College

• Best Value Colleges for Carpentry/Carpenter (Income $48-$75k)

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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