2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Power Plant Technology in the Southwest Region

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In 2021-2022, 82 people earned their degree in power plant technology, making the major the 1017th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 17 power plant technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 15 power plant technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,470 and $15,074 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Power Plant Technology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in power plant technology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in power plant technology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Power Plant Technology Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Power Plant Technology Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Power Plant Technology in the Southwest Region

1

Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology
Okmulgee, Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Power Plant Technology Major in the Southwest Region list. Okmulgee, Oklahoma is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s power plant technology degrees to 14 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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2

Northland Pioneer College
Holbrook, Arizona

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Power Plant Technology Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northland Pioneer College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Holbrook, Arizona, this small public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified associates’s power plant technology students in 2021-2022.

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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

• *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.