2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Vehicle Maintenance & Repair in the Great Lakes 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 “Most Well Attended Vehicle Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 “Most Well Attended Vehicle Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in vehicle maintenance and repair. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in vehicle maintenance and repair.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Vehicle Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Vehicle Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s”.

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

1

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Top 20% overall quality in Great Lakes

$51,618 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Michigan University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Vehicle Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s. Western Michigan University is a fairly large school located in Kalamazoo, Michigan that handed out 13 bachelors’s vehicle repair degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Vehicle Maintenance & Repair at Western Michigan University

2

Siena Heights University
Adrian, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Siena Heights University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Vehicle Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s. Siena Heights University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Adrian, Michigan. It awarded 7 bachelors’s vehicle repair degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Siena Heights University Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Report

3

Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois

$49,024 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,000 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Vehicle Repair Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #3 spot on the list. SIUC is a fairly large public school situated in Carbondale, Illinois. It awarded 0 bachelors’s vehicle repair degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Vehicle Maintenance & Repair at SIUC

• Most Popular 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.