2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance in Illinois

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 Equipment Maintenance Schools for an Associate in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance is the 199th most popular major in the country with 8,872 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, heavy/industrial equipment maintenance graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $40,429 and had an average of $11,583 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 369 heavy/industrial equipment maintenance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 100 heavy/industrial equipment maintenance graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,469 and $14,548 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Equipment Maintenance Schools for an Associate in Illinois” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in heavy/industrial equipment maintenance. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent heavy/industrial equipment maintenance programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the heavy/industrial equipment maintenance 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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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Equipment Maintenance Schools for an Associate in Illinois” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Equipment Maintenance Schools for an Associate in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois associate degree equipment maintenance students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance in Illinois

#1

Southwestern Illinois College

Belleville, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$7,098 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwestern Illinois College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Equipment Maintenance Schools for an Associate in Illinois. SWIC is a medium-sized school located in Belleville, Illinois that handed out 4 associates’s equipment maintenance degrees in 2019-2020.

SWIC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Associate Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. It costs about $7,098 for illinois associate degree equipment maintenance students per year to attend Southwestern Illinois College.

Read full report on Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance at SWIC

#2

Elgin Community College

Elgin, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$4,185 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Elgin Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Equipment Maintenance Schools for an Associate in Illinois. Elgin Community College is a medium-sized school located in Elgin, Illinois that handed out 2 associates’s equipment maintenance degrees in 2019-2020.

ECC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Associate Degree Schools in Illinois” list. It costs about $4,185 for illinois associate degree equipment maintenance students per year to attend Elgin Community College.

Read more about Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance at ECC

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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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