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2022 Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s

8 Ranked Colleges
271 Degrees Awarded
$14,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor's

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 271 mechanic and repair technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mechanic and repair technologies. 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree mechanic & repair technologies students.

Top 8 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mechanic & Repair Technologies

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s. This fairly large school is located in Daytona Beach, Florida, and it awarded 87 bachelors’s mechanic and repair technologies degrees in 2019-2020.

Embry-Riddle Worldwide did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Mechanic & Repair Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide is $20,333 for bachelor’s degree mechanic & repair technologies students.

The low student loan default rate of 4.7% 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 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide Mechanic & Repair Technologies Report

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southeastern Oklahoma State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s. Southeastern Oklahoma State University is a medium-sized school located in Durant, Oklahoma that handed out 24 bachelors’s mechanic and repair technologies degrees in 2019-2020.

Southeastern Oklahoma State University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Mechanic & Repair Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Southeastern Oklahoma State University is $8,237 for bachelor’s degree mechanic & repair technologies students.

Read more about Mechanic & Repair Technologies at Southeastern Oklahoma State University

#3

Ferris State University

Big Rapids, Michigan
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ferris State University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Big Rapids, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s mechanic and repair technologies degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

Ferris also made our “Best Mechanic & Repair Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend Ferris is $12,889 for bachelor’s degree mechanic & repair technologies students.

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#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Montana State University - Northern. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s. Montana State University - Northern is a small school located in Havre, Montana that handed out 31 bachelors’s mechanic and repair technologies degrees in 2019-2020.

Montana State University - Northern not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Mechanic & Repair Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Montana State University - Northern is $13,174 for bachelor’s degree mechanic & repair technologies students.

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#5

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Michigan University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s list. This fairly large school is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s mechanic and repair technologies degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree mechanic & repair technologies students list, WMU has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Mechanic & Repair Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $19,433 for Bachelor’s Degree Mechanic & Repair Technologies students per year to attend WMU.

Read more about Mechanic & Repair Technologies at Western Michigan University

#6

Rio Hondo College

Whittier, California
#6 in overall quality

Rio Hondo College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s ranking. RHCCD is a public institution located in Whittier, California. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

RHCCD not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #6 on our “Best Mechanic & Repair Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Rio Hondo College is $5,487 for Bachelor’s Degree Mechanic & Repair Technologies students.

Read more about Mechanic & Repair Technologies at Rio Hondo College

#7 in overall quality

Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s ranking, coming in at #7. Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Boston, Massachusetts. It awarded 4 bachelors’s mechanic and repair technologies degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at BFIT, the school also landed the #7 spot in our “Best Mechanic & Repair Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend BFIT is $13,829 for bachelor’s degree mechanic & repair technologies students.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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#8

Morrisville State College

Morrisville, New York
#8 in overall quality

Morrisville State College ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Morrisville, New York, this small public school handed out 24 degrees to qualified bachelors’s mechanic and repair technologies students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree mechanic & repair technologies students list, Morrisville State College has also earned the #8 rank in our “Best Mechanic & Repair Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $19,350 for Bachelor’s Degree Mechanic & Repair Technologies students per year to attend Morrisville State College.

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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

  • *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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