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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mechanical Repair Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Mechanics & Repairers is the 317th most popular major in the country with 391 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Southeast region, there were 84 mechanics and repairers graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,179 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 74 mechanics and repairers graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mechanical Repair Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

Top 5 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Mechanics & Repairers in the Southeast Region

1

Wallace State Community College, Hanceville
Hanceville, Alabama

$44,179 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mechanical Repair Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wallace State Community College, Hanceville landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Hanceville, Alabama, and it awarded 39 associates’s mechanical repair degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Mechanics & Repairers at Wallace State Community College, Hanceville

2

University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
Fort Smith, Arkansas

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mechanical Repair Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arkansas - Fort Smith landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and it awarded 16 associates’s mechanical repair degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Mechanics & Repairers at UAFS

3

West Virginia University at Parkersburg
Parkersburg, West Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Virginia University at Parkersburg. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mechanical Repair Major in the Southeast Region. West Virginia University at Parkersburg is a public institution located in Parkersburg, West Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Mechanics & Repairers at West Virginia University at Parkersburg

4

Tidewater Community College
Norfolk, Virginia

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mechanical Repair Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Tidewater Community College landed the #4 spot on the list. Norfolk, Virginia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s mechanical repair degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Mechanics & Repairers at Tidewater Community College

5

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Perkinston, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Mechanical Repair Major in the Southeast Region. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is a medium-sized public school situated in Perkinston, Mississippi. It awarded 4 associates’s mechanical repair degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Mechanics & Repairers Report

• 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.