2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Railroad & Railway Transportation

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Railroad and Railway Transportation Schools for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Railroad & Railway Transportation is the 1301st most popular major in the country with 171 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 4 railroad and railway transportation graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality railroad and railway transportation programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the railroad and railway transportation program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Railroad and Railway Transportation Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Railroad and Railway Transportation Schools for an Associate.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Railroad & Railway Transportation

#1

Johnson County Community College

Overland Park, Kansas

#1 in overall quality

$12,632 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Railroad and Railway Transportation Schools for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson County Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. JCCC is a fairly large school located in Overland Park, Kansas that handed out 4 associates’s railroad and railway transportation degrees in 2019-2020.

JCCC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Railroad & Railway Transportation Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $12,632 for Associate Degree Railroad and Railway Transportation students per year to attend Johnson County Community College.

Full JCCC Railroad & Railway Transportation Report

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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