2024 Best Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
Vehicle Maintenance & Repair is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #14 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 43 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for vehicle maintenance & repair students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 1,936 associate degrees in vehicle maintenance & repair to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Vehicle Maintenance & Repair School for Your Associate Degree
The vehicle repair associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of associate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their associate degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on vehicle maintenance & repair students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of vehicle maintenance & repair students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Student Debt - How much debt vehicle maintenance & repair students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized vehicle maintenance & repair related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for vehicle maintenance & repair students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Schools
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 the Best Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region.
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