2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Welding Engineering Technology in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Welding Engineering Tech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Welding Engineering Technology is the 941st most popular major in the country with 274 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 35 welding engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 23 welding engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,723 and $22,140 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Welding Engineering Tech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in welding engineering technology/technician. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in welding engineering technology/technician.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Welding Engineering Tech Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree welding engineering tech students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Welding Engineering Technology in the Plains States Region

1

Mitchell Technical College
Mitchell, South Dakota

Top 25% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mitchell Technical College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Welding Engineering Tech Major in the Plains States Region. Mitchell Tech is a public institution located in Mitchell, South Dakota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 19 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Welding Engineering Technology at Mitchell Technical College

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North Central Kansas Technical College
Beloit, Kansas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Welding Engineering Tech Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, North Central Kansas Technical College landed the #2 spot on the list. North Central Kansas Technical College is a small school located in Beloit, Kansas that handed out 4 associates’s welding engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full North Central Kansas Technical College Welding Engineering Technology Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Welding Engineering 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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