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2022 Best Value Machine Shop Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

1 Ranked Colleges
7 Degrees Awarded
$5,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Machine Shop Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Machine Shop Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Machine Shop Technology/Assistant is the 617th most popular major in the country with 2,373 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 43 machine shop technology/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 7 machine shop technology/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality machine shop technology/assistant programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the machine shop technology/assistant program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Machine Shop Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Machine Shop Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree machine shop tech students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Machine Shop Technology/Assistant (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Houston Community College

Houston, Texas
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Houston Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Machine Shop Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Houston Community College is a public institution located in Houston, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 7 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Houston Community College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Machine Shop Technology/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $5,351 for southwest region associate degree machine shop tech students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Houston Community 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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