Electrician is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #57 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 51 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Electrician Associate Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 2,997 associate degrees in electrician to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Electrician School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of electrician for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality electrician program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on electrician students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of electrician students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized electrician related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for electrician students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Electrician Associate Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Electrician in the United States
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for electrician students seeking a an associate degree. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
El Centro College is one of the best schools in the country for getting an associate degree in electrician. Located in the large city of Dallas, El Centro College is a public college with a very large student population.More information about a associate in electrician from El Centro College
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Honorable Mentions
These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Electrician Associate Degree Schools award.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
Your choice of electrician for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality electrician program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
