2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mechanic & Repair Technologies in California (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 100,894 people earned their degree in mechanic and repair technologies, making the major the 27th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, mechanic and repair technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,617 and had an average of $12,590 in loans still to pay off.

Across California, there were 10,010 mechanic and repair technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,577 and $11,309 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 mechanic and repair technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,907 and $21,546 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality mechanic and repair technologies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the mechanic and repair technologies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mechanic & Repair Technologies in California (With Aid)

#1

Rio Hondo College

Whittier, California

#1 in overall quality

$5,487 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Rio Hondo College landed the #1 spot on the list. RHCCD is located in Whittier, California and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 bachelors’s mechanic and repair technologies degrees to qualified students.

RHCCD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Mechanic & Repair Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” list. It costs about $5,487 for California Bachelor’s Degree Mechanic & Repair Technologies students with aid per year to attend RHCCD.

Read full report on Mechanic & Repair Technologies at Rio Hondo College

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mechanic & Repair Technologies (With Aid)

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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