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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mechanic & Repair Technologies in the Great Lakes Region

2 Ranked Colleges
30 Degrees Awarded
$16,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Mechanic & Repair Technologies is the 27th most popular major in the country with 100,894 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 12,248 mechanic and repair technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,591 and $12,796 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 mechanic and repair technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 2 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 in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mechanic & Repair Technologies in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Ferris State University

Big Rapids, Michigan
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ferris State University landed the #1 spot on the 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.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Ferris, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Mechanic & Repair Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Ferris is $12,889 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Mechanic & Repair Technologies students.

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#2

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Michigan University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Mechanic & Repair Technologies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region. WMU is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 bachelors’s mechanic and repair technologies degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at WMU, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Mechanic & Repair Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend WMU is $19,433 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree mechanic & repair technologies students.

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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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