2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Machine Shop Technology/Assistant in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Machine Shop Technology/Assistant is the 786th most popular major in the country with 1,588 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southwest region, there were 23 machine shop technology/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 machine shop technology/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,470 and $15,074 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in machine shop technology/assistant. That schools that top this list have a program in machine shop technology/assistant in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Machine Shop Technology/Assistant in the Southwest Region

1

Eastern Arizona College
Thatcher, Arizona

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Arizona College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Southwest Region list. Eastern Arizona College is a public institution located in Thatcher, Arizona. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 associates’s degrees in 2021-2022.

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Houston Community College
Houston, Texas

Top 10% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Houston Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Southwest Region list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s machine shop tech degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.