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2022 Best Value HVAC Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

5 Ranked Colleges
102 Degrees Awarded
$14,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value HVAC Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value HVAC Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 6,236 people earned their degree in heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration engineering technology/technician, making the major the 520th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,394 heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 102 heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value HVAC Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration engineering technology/technician. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration engineering technology/technician programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration engineering technology/technician 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 HVAC Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value HVAC Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region.

Top 5 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineering Technology in the Southeast Region

#1

Indian River State College

Fort Pierce, Florida
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indian River State College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value HVAC Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Indian River State College is a public institution located in Fort Pierce, Florida. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Indian River State College, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Indian River State College is $2,003 for Southeast Region Associate Degree HVAC students.

Full Indian River State College Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineering Technology Report

#2

Sullivan University

Louisville, Kentucky
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sullivan University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value HVAC Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Louisville, Kentucky is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s HVAC degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

Sullivan University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $22,392 for Southeast Region Associate Degree HVAC students per year to attend Sullivan University.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineering Technology at Sullivan University

#3

ITI Technical College

Baton Rouge, Louisiana
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value HVAC Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, ITI Technical College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this small private for-profit school handed out 13 diplomas to qualified associates’s HVAC students in 2019-2020.

ITI Technical College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $19,906 for Southeast Region Associate Degree HVAC students per year to attend ITI Technical College.

Full ITI Technical College Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineering Technology Report

#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value HVAC Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, College of Business and Technology-Hialeah landed the #4 spot on the list. College of Business and Technology-Hialeah is a small private for-profit school situated in Hialeah, Florida. It awarded 16 associates’s HVAC degrees in 2019-2020.

CBT College - Hialeah also made our “Best Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #4. The yearly cost to attend College of Business and Technology-Hialeah is $11,675 for southeast region associate degree hvac students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full College of Business and Technology-Hialeah Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineering Technology Report

#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend College of Business and Technology-Flagler. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value HVAC Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Miami, Florida is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s HVAC degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

CBT College - Flagler also made our “Best Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #5. The estimated yearly cost for CBT College - Flagler is $15,661 for Southeast Region Associate Degree HVAC students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.

Full College of Business and Technology-Flagler Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineering Technology Report

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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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