For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for heating, ventilation, air conditioning & refrigeration engineering technology students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 84 associate degrees in heating, ventilation, air conditioning & refrigeration engineering technology during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineering Technology School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of heating, ventilation, air conditioning & refrigeration engineering technology for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality hvac program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to heating, ventilation, air conditioning & refrigeration engineering technology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other heating, ventilation, air conditioning & refrigeration engineering technology students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized heating, ventilation, air conditioning & refrigeration engineering technology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for heating, ventilation, air conditioning & refrigeration engineering technology students working on their associate degree.
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 Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineering Technology in the Great Lakes Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in heating, ventilation, air conditioning & refrigeration engineering technology.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for an Associate in HVAC
Best Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineering Technology Colleges by State
Explore the best heating, ventilation, air conditioning & refrigeration engineering technology colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .
One of 6 majors within the Environmental Control Technology area of study, Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineering Technology has other similar majors worth exploring.
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.