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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Telcom Tech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Telecommunications Technology is the 895th most popular major in the country with 451 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Plains States region, there were 95 telecommunications technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 telecommunications technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,161 and $15,228 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Telcom Tech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in telecommunications technology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in telecommunications technology.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree telcom tech students.
Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Telecommunications Technology in the Plains States Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mitchell Technical College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Telcom Tech Major in the Plains States Region. Mitchell Technical College is located in Mitchell, South Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 11 associates’s telcom tech degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full Mitchell Tech Telecommunications Technology Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Minnesota West Community and Technical College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Telcom Tech Major in the Plains States Region list. Minnesota West is a small school located in Granite Falls, Minnesota that handed out 0 associates’s telcom tech degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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%.
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- *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.
