2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Equipment Maintenance Major

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Equipment Maintenance Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 8,717 people earned their degree in heavy/industrial equipment maintenance, making the major the 195th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, heavy/industrial equipment maintenance graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $44,254 and had an average of $12,397 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 heavy/industrial equipment maintenance graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Equipment Maintenance Major” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in heavy/industrial equipment maintenance. That schools that top this list have a program in heavy/industrial equipment maintenance in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The equipment maintenance school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Equipment Maintenance Major”.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Equipment Maintenance Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree equipment maintenance students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance

1

Ferris State University
Big Rapids, Michigan

$61,397 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,000 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Equipment Maintenance Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Ferris State University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Big Rapids, Michigan, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s equipment maintenance degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Ferris Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Report

2

Lewis - Clark State College
Lewiston, Idaho

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lewis - Clark State College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Equipment Maintenance Major list. Lewis - Clark State College is a small public school situated in Lewiston, Idaho. It awarded 3 bachelors’s equipment maintenance degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance at Lewis - Clark State College

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.