2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Musical Instrument Fabrication & Repair

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Musical Instrument Fabrication and Repair Schools for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 99 people earned their degree in musical instrument fabrication and repair, making the major the 1192nd most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 15 musical instrument fabrication and repair graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Musical Instrument Fabrication and Repair Schools for an Associate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in musical instrument fabrication and repair. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality musical instrument fabrication and repair programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the musical instrument fabrication and repair program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Musical Instrument Fabrication and Repair Schools for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Musical Instrument Fabrication and Repair Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Musical Instrument Fabrication and Repair Schools for an Associate.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Musical Instrument Fabrication & Repair

#1

Western Iowa Tech Community College

Sioux City, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$7,201 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Iowa Tech Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Musical Instrument Fabrication and Repair Schools for an Associate list. Sioux City, Iowa is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s musical instrument fabrication and repair degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Western Iowa Tech Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Musical Instrument Fabrication & Repair Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $7,201 for Associate Degree Musical Instrument Fabrication and Repair students per year to attend Western Iowa Tech Community College.

Read more about Musical Instrument Fabrication & Repair at Western Iowa Tech Community College

#2

Minnesota State College Southeast

Winona, Minnesota

#2 in overall quality

$13,824 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Minnesota State College Southeast. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Musical Instrument Fabrication and Repair Schools for an Associate list. Located in Winona, Minnesota, this small public school awarded 5 degrees to qualified associates’s musical instrument fabrication and repair students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at MSC Southeast, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Musical Instrument Fabrication & Repair Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $13,824 for associate degree musical instrument fabrication and repair students per year to attend Minnesota State College Southeast.

Full MSC Southeast Musical Instrument Fabrication & Repair Report

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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