2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Vehicle Maintenance & Repair in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Vehicle Repair Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Vehicle Maintenance & Repair is the 70th most popular major in the country with 61,193 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, vehicle maintenance and repair graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,439 and had an average of $13,424 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 18,856 vehicle maintenance and repair graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,978 and $14,425 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 88 vehicle maintenance and repair graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality vehicle maintenance and repair programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the vehicle maintenance and repair program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Vehicle Repair Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Vehicle Repair Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree vehicle repair students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Vehicle Maintenance & Repair in the Southeast Region

#1

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide

Daytona Beach, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$20,333 Average Net Price

$68,821 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Vehicle Repair Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Daytona Beach, Florida, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 87 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s vehicle repair students in 2019-2020.

Embry-Riddle Worldwide also took the #1 spot in our “Best Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Embry-Riddle Worldwide is $20,333 for southeast region bachelor’s degree vehicle repair students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Vehicle Maintenance & Repair at Embry-Riddle Worldwide

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Vehicle Maintenance & Repair

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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