2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration in Maine

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 “Best Value HVACR Schools for an Associate in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 19,871 people earned their degree in heating, air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration, making the major the 186th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, heating, air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $30,328 and had an average of $11,782 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 121 heating, air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,700 and $7,600 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 18 heating, air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,425 and $17,736 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great heating, air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the heating, air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value HVACR Schools for an Associate in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value HVACR Schools for an Associate in Maine.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration in Maine

#1

Southern Maine Community College

South Portland, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$10,647 Average Net Price

$44,189 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value HVACR Schools for an Associate in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Maine Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern Maine Community College is located in South Portland, Maine and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 5 associates’s HVACR degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our maine associate degree hvacr students list, SMCC has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration Associate Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. It costs about $10,647 for maine associate degree hvacr students per year to attend SMCC.

Read full report on Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration at SMCC

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration in the New England Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration

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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