2025 Best Electrician Schools in the Southwest Region

If you plan on majoring in electrician, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #247 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Electrician Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,710 degrees in electrician annually.

What's on this page: * Degree-Level Rankings

• Best Overall Electrician Schools List

Electrician Rankings by Degree Level

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 Electrician Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision. You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.

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More information on how we come up with our rankings can be found here: College Factual's Data Methodology.

Best Schools for Electrician in the Southwest Region

The schools below may not offer all types of electrician degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.

Top Southwest Region Schools in Electrician

1

El Centro College
Dallas, TX

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

El Centro College is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in electrician. Located in the city of Dallas, El Centro College is a public college with a fairly large student population.More information about a degree in electrician from El Centro College

2

Central New Mexico Community College
Albuquerque, NM

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

125 Electrician Degrees Awarded

44.0% Growth in Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in electrician needs to check out Central New Mexico Community College. CNM is a large public college located in the city of Albuquerque.More information about a degree in electrician from Central New Mexico Community College

Best Electrician Colleges by State

Explore the best electrician schools for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	905	36
Arizona	670	1
New Mexico	416	17

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Rankings in Majors Related to Electrician

One of 3 majors within the Electrical & Power Transmission Installers area of study, Electrician has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Majors Related to Electrician

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Electrical & Power Transmission Installation/Installer	661
Lineworker	361
Other Electrical & Power Transmission Installers	19

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Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Fran Hogan.

More about our data sources and methodologies.