2022 Best Value General Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in Illinois For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value General Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in Illinois For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general construction trades. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general construction trades programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general construction trades program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. 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 Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois associate degree general construction trades students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Construction Trades in Illinois (With Aid)

#1

Triton College

River Grove, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$4,988 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Triton College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in Illinois For Those Getting Aid list. River Grove, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s general construction trades degrees to 32 students in 2019-2020.

Triton College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools in Illinois” list. The yearly cost to attend Triton College is $4,988 for Illinois Associate Degree General Construction Trades students with aid.

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#2

Southwestern Illinois College

Belleville, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$7,098 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value General Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in Illinois For Those Getting Aid 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 did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools in Illinois” list. The yearly cost to attend SWIC is $7,098 for illinois associate degree general construction trades students with aid.

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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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