2025 Best Machine Shop Technology/Assistant Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
1,026Machine Shop Tech Degrees Awarded
Machine Shop Technology/Assistant isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #786 in popularity out of 1506 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for machine shop technology/assistant students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,026 degrees in machine shop technology/assistant annually.
Choosing a Great Machine Shop Technology/Assistant School
Your choice of machine shop technology/assistant school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Machine Shop Technology/Assistant School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Machine Shop Technology/Assistant Rankings by Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Machine Shop Technology/Assistant Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Machine Shop Technology/Assistant in the Southeast Region
The schools below may not offer all types of machine shop tech degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Gateway Community and Technical College is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in machine shop technology/assistant. Located in the suburb of Florence, Gateway is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 19th out of 39 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were about 54 machine shop technology/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Gateway in the most recent data year.
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in machine shop technology/assistant. Located in the small city of Elizabethtown, Elizabethtown Community and Technical College is a public college with a moderately-sized student population. This college ranks 21st out of 39 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were roughly 44 machine shop technology/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in machine shop technology/assistant has to check out Bluegrass Community and Technical College. Located in the large city of Lexington, Bluegrass Community and Technical College is a public college with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #1274 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Bluegrass Community and Technical College is a great college overall.
There were approximately 42 machine shop technology/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Bluegrass Community and Technical College in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
Your choice of machine shop technology/assistant school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Machine Shop Technology/Assistant School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.