by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended HVACR Major in California” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 19,594 people earned their degree in heating, air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration, making the major the 192nd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, heating, air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $32,998 and had an average of $11,353 in loans still to pay off.
Across California, there were 2,082 heating, air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,666 and $9,308 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended HVACR Major in California” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in heating, air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration. To top this list, a school must have a successful heating, air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended HVACR Major in California” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended HVACR Major in California”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended HVACR Major in California. San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia is a small school located in Visalia, California that handed out 53 ’s HVACR degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended HVACR Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, Mayfield College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Cathedral City, California, this small private for-profit school awarded 64 degrees to qualified ’s HVACR students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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