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In 2021-2022, 541 people earned their degree in tool & die technology/technician, making the major the 810th most popular in the United States.
Across the Plains States region, there were 71 tool & die technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 25 tool & die technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,161 and $15,228 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Tool and Die Tech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in tool & die technology/technician. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in tool & die technology/technician.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Tool and Die Tech Major in the Plains States Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Iowa Area Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Tool and Die Tech Major in the Plains States Region. North Iowa Area Community College is located in Mason City, Iowa and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 7 associates’s tool and die tech degrees to qualified students.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Tool and Die Tech Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Marshalltown Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Marshalltown Community College is a small school located in Marshalltown, Iowa that handed out 1 associates’s tool and die tech degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Des Moines Area Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Tool and Die Tech Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Ankeny, Iowa, this large public school handed out 14 degrees to qualified associates’s tool and die tech students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hennepin Technical College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Tool and Die Tech Major in the Plains States Region list. Hennepin Technical College is a small public school situated in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. It awarded 4 associates’s tool and die tech degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, 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
- *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.
