2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Vehicle Maintenance & Repair in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 56,539 people earned their degree in vehicle maintenance and repair, making the major the 76th most popular in the United States. 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 Southeast region, there were 17,990 vehicle maintenance and repair graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,774 and $13,618 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 108 vehicle maintenance and repair graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Vehicle Repair Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Southeast Region”.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Vehicle Repair Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Vehicle Maintenance & Repair in the Southeast Region

1

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide
Daytona Beach, Florida

#13 overall quality in Southeast

$65,961 Average Early-Career Earnings

$19,653 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Vehicle Repair Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Daytona Beach, Florida, and it awarded 108 bachelors’s vehicle repair degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Vehicle Maintenance & Repair at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide

2

Southern Adventist University
Collegedale, Tennessee

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Adventist University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Vehicle Repair Major in the Southeast Region. Southern Adventist University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Collegedale, Tennessee. It awarded 0 bachelors’s vehicle repair degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Vehicle Maintenance & Repair at Southern Adventist

• 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

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