2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Machine Shop Technology/Assistant in the Plains States Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 1,588 people earned their degree in machine shop technology/assistant, making the major the 786th most popular in the United States.
Across the Plains States region, there were 52 machine shop technology/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 machine shop technology/assistant graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,161 and $15,228 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in machine shop technology/assistant. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their machine shop technology/assistant program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree machine shop tech students.
Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Machine Shop Technology/Assistant in the Plains States Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ranken Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 10 diplomas to qualified associates’s machine shop tech students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Machine Shop Technology/Assistant at Ranken Technical College
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Machine Shop Tech Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City landed the #2 spot on the list. Kansas City, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s machine shop tech degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City Machine Shop Technology/Assistant Report
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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
- *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.
