2023 Most Well Attended Quality Control Tech Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Quality Control Tech Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Quality Control Technology is the 159th most popular major in the country with 3,824 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, quality control technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $62,350 and had an average of $22,579 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,992 quality control technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $70,172 and $24,539 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 376 quality control technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Quality Control Tech Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in quality control technology. To top this list, a school must have a successful quality control technology program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Quality Control Tech Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree quality control tech students.

Top 6 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Quality Control Technology in the Southeast Region

1

Columbia Southern University
Orange Beach, Alabama

$71,839 Average Early-Career Earnings

$15,959 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Columbia Southern University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Quality Control Tech Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate. Located in Orange Beach, Alabama, this fairly large private for-profit school awarded 364 diplomas to qualified associates’s quality control tech students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Quality Control Technology at Columbia Southern University

2

Central Piedmont Community College
Charlotte, North Carolina

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Piedmont Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Quality Control Tech Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate. Central Piedmont Community College is a public institution located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 7 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Quality Control Technology at Central Piedmont Community College

3

Fairmont State University
Fairmont, West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Fairmont State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Quality Control Tech Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate list. Fairmont State is a small public school situated in Fairmont, West Virginia. It awarded 4 associates’s quality control tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Quality Control Technology at Fairmont State

4

Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
Asheville, North Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Quality Control Tech Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate list. A-B Tech is a public institution located in Asheville, North Carolina. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 1 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Quality Control Technology Report

5

Aiken Technical College
Graniteville, South Carolina

Out of the 6 schools in the Most Well Attended Quality Control Tech Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Aiken Technical College landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Graniteville, South Carolina, this small public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified associates’s quality control tech students in 2020-2021.

Full Aiken Technical College Quality Control Technology Report

5

Blue Ridge Community and Technical College
Martinsburg, West Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Blue Ridge Community and Technical College. The school came in at #5 for the Most Well Attended Quality Control Tech Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate. Blue Ridge Community and Technical College is a public institution located in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Quality Control Technology at Blue Ridge Community and Technical College

• Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Quality Control 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Gina Collecchia.