2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Industrial Production Technology in Arkansas

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 Industrial Production Tech Schools for an Associate in Arkansas” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Industrial Production Technology is the 98th most popular major in the country with 12,687 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, industrial production technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $49,214 and had an average of $18,526 in loans still to pay off.

Across Arkansas, there were 195 industrial production technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,500 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 60 industrial production technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,815 and $15,092 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for an Associate in Arkansas” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in industrial production technology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent industrial production technology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the industrial production technology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for an Associate in Arkansas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for an Associate in Arkansas.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Industrial Production Technology in Arkansas

#1

Arkansas Northeastern College

Blytheville, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$4,371 Average Net Price

$90,856 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arkansas Northeastern College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for an Associate in Arkansas list. Located in Blytheville, Arkansas, this small public school awarded 21 degrees to qualified associates’s industrial production tech students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our arkansas associate degree industrial production tech students list, Arkansas Northeastern College has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Industrial Production Technology Associate Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Arkansas Northeastern College is $4,371 for Arkansas Associate Degree Industrial Production Tech students.

Full Arkansas Northeastern College Industrial Production Technology Report

#2

Arkansas Tech University

Russellville, Arkansas

#2 in overall quality

$10,772 Average Net Price

$42,682 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for an Associate in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Arkansas Tech University landed the #2 spot on the list. Arkansas Tech University is located in Russellville, Arkansas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 associates’s industrial production tech degrees to qualified students.

ATU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Industrial Production Technology Associate Degree Schools in Arkansas” list. It costs about $10,772 for Arkansas Associate Degree Industrial Production Tech students per year to attend ATU.

Full ATU Industrial Production 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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