2023 Most Focused Colleges for Engine Machinist

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Engine Machinist is the 1261st most popular major in the country with 133 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Engine Machinist Major” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engine machinist. That schools that top this list have a program in engine machinist in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools Highly Focused on Engine Machinist Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for engine machinist students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Engine Machinist

1

School of Automotive Machinists & Technology
Houston, Texas

$33,023 Average Early-Career Earnings

$13,701 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend School of Automotive Machinists & Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Engine Machinist Major. Houston, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out ’s engine machinist degrees to 112 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 100%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Engine Machinist at School of Automotive Machinists & Technology

2

Lake Area Technical Institute
Watertown, South Dakota

$36,525 Average Early-Career Earnings

$12,964 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lake Area Technical Institute. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Engine Machinist Major list. Located in Watertown, South Dakota, this small public school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified ’s engine machinist students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Engine Machinist at LATI

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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