2022 Best Value Automobile/Automotive Mechanics Technology/Technician Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Automobile/Automotive Mechanics Technology/Technician Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 32,871 people earned their degree in automobile/automotive mechanics technology/technician, making the major the 111th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 5,743 automobile/automotive mechanics technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 automobile/automotive mechanics technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,083 and $22,209 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality automobile/automotive mechanics technology/technician programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the automobile/automotive mechanics technology/technician program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Automobile/Automotive Mechanics Technology/Technician Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Automobile/Automotive Mechanics Technology/Technician Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Automobile/Automotive Mechanics Technology/Technician in the Far Western US Region

#1

Rio Hondo College

Whittier, California

#1 in overall quality

$5,487 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rio Hondo College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Automobile/Automotive Mechanics Technology/Technician Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Whittier, California, this fairly large public school awarded 11 degrees to qualified bachelors’s automobile/automotive mechanics technology/technician students in 2019-2020.

RHCCD also took the #1 spot in our “Best Automobile/Automotive Mechanics Technology/Technician Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend RHCCD is $5,487 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Automobile/Automotive Mechanics Technology/Technician students.

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Airman 1st Class Nigel Sandridge.

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