2022 Best Value Science Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Science Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Science Technologies / Technicians is the 37th most popular major in the country with 7,387 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, science technologies / technicians graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,463 and had an average of $14,918 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 2,442 science technologies / technicians graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,775 and $12,608 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 779 science technologies / technicians graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Science Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in science technologies / technicians. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality science technologies / technicians programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the science technologies / technicians program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Science Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Science Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Science Technologies / Technicians in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

Pierpont Community and Technical College

Fairmont, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$9,378 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pierpont Community and Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Science Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid list. Pierpont Community and Technical College is a public institution located in Fairmont, West Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 23 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Pierpont Community and Technical College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Science Technologies / Technicians Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Pierpont Community and Technical College is $9,378 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Science Tech students with aid.

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#2

Ashland Community and Technical College

Ashland, Kentucky

#2 in overall quality

$5,442 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Science Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Ashland Community and Technical College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Ashland, Kentucky, this small public school handed out 50 diplomas to qualified associates’s science tech students in 2019-2020.

ACTC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Science Technologies / Technicians Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend ACTC is $5,442 for southeast region associate degree science tech students with aid.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Science Technologies / Technicians (With Aid)

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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