2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Mechanics & Repairers in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mechanical Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 391 people earned their degree in mechanics and repairers, making the major the 317th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, mechanics and repairers graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $44,179 and had an average of $8,323 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 173 mechanics and repairers graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 65 mechanics and repairers graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mechanical Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in mechanics and repairers. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their mechanics and repairers program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mechanical Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree mechanical repair students.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Mechanics & Repairers in the Great Lakes Region

1

Henry Ford College
Dearborn, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Henry Ford College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mechanical Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region. Henry Ford College is located in Dearborn, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 associates’s mechanical repair degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Mechanics & Repairers at Henry Ford College

2

Kellogg Community College
Battle Creek, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kellogg Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mechanical Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region. Kellogg Community College is located in Battle Creek, Michigan and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 associates’s mechanical repair degrees to qualified students.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Mechanics & Repairers at Kellogg Community College

3

Ivy Tech Community College
Indianapolis, Indiana

Top 10% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ivy Tech Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mechanical Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Indianapolis, Indiana, this large public school handed out 47 degrees to qualified associates’s mechanical repair students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Mechanics & Repairers at Ivy Tech Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Mechanics & Repairers

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Alfred Palmer.