2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Machine Shop Technology/Assistant is the 786th most popular major in the country with 1,921 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 72 machine shop technology/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 16 machine shop technology/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,723 and $22,140 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in machine shop technology/assistant. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their machine shop technology/assistant program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree machine shop tech students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Machine Shop Technology/Assistant in the Plains States Region

1

Ranken Technical College
Saint Louis, Missouri

#5 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ranken Technical College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Plains States Region. Ranken Technical College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Louis, Missouri. The school has a small population, and it awarded 10 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Machine Shop Technology/Assistant at Ranken Technical College

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Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri

Top 25% overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City landed the #2 spot on the list. Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City is located in Kansas City, Missouri and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 associates’s machine shop tech degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Machine Shop Technology/Assistant at MCC

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Machine Shop Technology/Assistant

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.