2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Vehicle Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Vehicle Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Vehicle Maintenance & Repair is the 76th most popular major in the country with 56,539 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, vehicle maintenance and repair graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,763 and had an average of $13,320 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 6,490 vehicle maintenance and repair graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,168 and $12,749 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 vehicle maintenance and repair graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Vehicle Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in vehicle maintenance and repair. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their vehicle maintenance and repair program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The vehicle repair school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Vehicle Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Vehicle Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Vehicle Maintenance & Repair in the Great Lakes Region

1

Siena Heights University
Adrian, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Siena Heights University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Vehicle Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Adrian, Michigan, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s vehicle repair students in 2020-2021.

Full Siena Heights University Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Report

2

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Top 20% overall quality in Great Lakes

$51,618 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,000 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Vehicle Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #2 spot on the list. Western Michigan University is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 bachelors’s vehicle repair degrees to qualified students.

Full Western Michigan University Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Report

3

Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois

$49,024 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Vehicle Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region list. SIUC is a fairly large school located in Carbondale, Illinois that handed out 0 bachelors’s vehicle repair degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Vehicle Maintenance & Repair at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

• Most Focused 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

• *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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