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2022 Best Value Electrician Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

2 Ranked Colleges
69 Degrees Awarded
$5,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Electrician Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Electrician Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Electrician is the 266th most popular major in the country with 18,666 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,221 electrician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 69 electrician graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Electrician Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in electrician. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great electrician programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the electrician program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Electrician Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Electrician Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree electrician students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Electrician (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Central New Mexico Community College

Albuquerque, New Mexico
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central New Mexico Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Electrician Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s electrician degrees to 25 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at CNM, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Electrician Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $3,626 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Electrician students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Central New Mexico Community College.

Read full report on Electrician at CNM

#2

St Philip's College

San Antonio, Texas
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Electrician Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, St Philip’s College landed the #2 spot on the list. St Philip’s College is a public institution located in San Antonio, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 11 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at St Philip’s College, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Electrician Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for St Philip’s College is $6,522 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Electrician students whose families make $30-$48k.

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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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