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2022 Best Value Equipment Maintenance Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

6 Ranked Colleges
78 Degrees Awarded
$7,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Equipment Maintenance Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 8,872 people earned their degree in heavy/industrial equipment maintenance, making the major the 199th most popular in the United States. 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 the Southwest region, there were 158 heavy/industrial equipment maintenance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $32,500 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 78 heavy/industrial equipment maintenance graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Equipment Maintenance Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the heavy/industrial equipment maintenance program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Equipment Maintenance Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

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

Top 6 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance in the Southwest Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Equipment Maintenance Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region. Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology is located in Okmulgee, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 19 associates’s equipment maintenance degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our southwest region associate degree equipment maintenance students list, OSU Institute of Technology has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $6,500 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Equipment Maintenance students per year to attend OSU Institute of Technology.

Read more about Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance at Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology

#2

San Juan College

Farmington, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend San Juan College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Equipment Maintenance Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. Located in Farmington, New Mexico, this medium-sized public school handed out 8 diplomas to qualified associates’s equipment maintenance students in 2019-2020.

SJC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $6,115 for southwest region associate degree equipment maintenance students per year to attend SJC.

Full San Juan College Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Report

#3

Tyler Junior College

Tyler, Texas
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tyler Junior College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Equipment Maintenance Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region. Tyler Junior College is located in Tyler, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 7 associates’s equipment maintenance degrees to qualified students.

Tyler Junior College also made our “Best Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend Tyler Junior College is $9,277 for southwest region associate degree equipment maintenance students.

Full Tyler Junior College Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Report

#5 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Equipment Maintenance Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Carlsbad landed the #4 spot on the list. Carlsbad, New Mexico is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s equipment maintenance degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

NMSU Carlsbad did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for New Mexico State University - Carlsbad is $7,715 for southwest region associate degree equipment maintenance students.

Full NMSU Carlsbad Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Report

#5

Yavapai College

Prescott, Arizona
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Equipment Maintenance Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Yavapai College landed the #5 spot on the list. Yavapai College is a medium-sized school located in Prescott, Arizona that handed out 1 associates’s equipment maintenance degrees in 2019-2020.

Yavapai College also made our “Best Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #4. The yearly cost to attend Yavapai College is $6,965 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Equipment Maintenance students.

Read more about Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance at Yavapai College

#6

Texarkana College

Texarkana, Texas
#6 in overall quality

Texarkana College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Equipment Maintenance Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region ranking. Texarkana College is a small public school situated in Texarkana, Texas. It awarded 1 associates’s equipment maintenance degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texarkana College, the school also landed the #6 spot in our “Best Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $6,394 for southwest region associate degree equipment maintenance students per year to attend Texarkana College.

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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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