2022 Best Value General Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value General Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Construction Trades is the 614th most popular major in the country with 2,597 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Illinois, there were 670 general construction trades graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 47 general construction trades graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,469 and $14,548 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value General Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general construction trades. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general construction trades programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general construction trades program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value General Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois associate degree general construction trades students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Construction Trades (Income $0-$30k) in Illinois

#1

Triton College

River Grove, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$4,546 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value General Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Triton College landed the #1 spot on the list. Triton College is a medium-sized school located in River Grove, Illinois that handed out 32 associates’s general construction trades degrees in 2019-2020.

Triton College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools in Illinois” list. The yearly cost to attend Triton College is $4,546 for Illinois Associate Degree General Construction Trades students whose families make $0-$30k.

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#2

Southwestern Illinois College

Belleville, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$5,506 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value General Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in Illinois For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Southwestern Illinois College landed the #2 spot on the list. Belleville, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s general construction trades degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

SWIC also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Southwestern Illinois College is $5,506 for illinois associate degree general construction trades students whose families make $0-$30k.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Construction Trades (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Construction Trades (Income $0-$30k)

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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