2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Autobody/Collision & Repair Technology/Technician in South Dakota

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Autobody/Collision and Repair Technology/Technician Major in South Dakota” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 4,487 people earned their degree in autobody/collision and repair technology/technician, making the major the 557th most popular in the United States.

Across South Dakota, there were 35 autobody/collision and repair technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 23 autobody/collision and repair technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,091 and $23,788 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Autobody/Collision and Repair Technology/Technician Major in South Dakota” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in autobody/collision and repair technology/technician. That schools that top this list have a program in autobody/collision and repair technology/technician in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Autobody/Collision and Repair Technology/Technician Major in South Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Autobody/Collision and Repair Technology/Technician Major in South Dakota”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Autobody/Collision & Repair Technology/Technician in South Dakota

1

Southeast Technical College
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#9 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeast Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Autobody/Collision and Repair Technology/Technician Major in South Dakota list. Located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, this small public school handed out 15 degrees to qualified associates’s autobody/collision and repair technology/technician students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Autobody/Collision & Repair Technology/Technician at Southeast Tech

2

Lake Area Technical Institute
Watertown, South Dakota

#4 overall quality in South Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Autobody/Collision and Repair Technology/Technician Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, Lake Area Technical Institute landed the #2 spot on the list. Lake Area Technical Institute is a small school located in Watertown, South Dakota that handed out 8 associates’s autobody/collision and repair technology/technician degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Lake Area Technical Institute Autobody/Collision & Repair Technology/Technician Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Autobody/Collision & Repair Technology/Technician in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Autobody/Collision & Repair Technology/Technician

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

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