2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Metallurgical Technology in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Metallurgical Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Metallurgical Technology is the 1072nd most popular major in the country with 87 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 39 metallurgical technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 19 metallurgical technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Metallurgical Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in metallurgical technology/technician. That schools that top this list have a program in metallurgical technology/technician in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Metallurgical Tech Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree metallurgical tech students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Metallurgical Technology in the Southwest Region

1

Kilgore College
Kilgore, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kilgore College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Metallurgical Tech Major in the Southwest Region. Kilgore, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s metallurgical tech degrees to 16 students in 2020-2021.

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2

Houston Community College
Houston, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Houston Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Metallurgical Tech Major in the Southwest Region list. Houston Community College is a public institution located in Houston, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 3 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Metallurgical Technology

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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