Plumbing & Water Supply isn't the most popular associate program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #147 in popularity out of 328 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Plumbing & Water Supply Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 124 associate degrees in plumbing & water supply to qualified students.
DEBUG: Checking offer "Construction Management (I Have a HS Diploma or Associate Degree)" with relevance 0.5
DEBUG: ✗ Offer "Construction Management (I Have a HS Diploma or Associate Degree)" REJECTED (relevance 0.5)
DEBUG: Checking offer "Construction Management (I Have a Bachelors)" with relevance 0.5
DEBUG: ✗ Offer "Construction Management (I Have a Bachelors)" REJECTED (relevance 0.5)
DEBUG: relevant_offers count = 2
DEBUG: relevant_offers > 0, checking for ESYOH offers
DEBUG: ESYOH filtering - found 1 ESYOH offers with relevance >= 0.8
DEBUG: esyoh_offers count = 1
DEBUG: ESYOH offers found, rendering ESYOH widget
DEBUG: most_relevant_only = true, filtering for most relevant
DEBUG: Found 0 offers with relevance >= 1.0
DEBUG: Backfilling with 0 offers with relevance >= 0.9
DEBUG: Backfilling with 1 offers with relevance >= 0.8
Early-Career Earnings
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 plumbing & water supply students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of plumbing & water supply 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.
Student Debt - How much debt plumbing & water supply students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized plumbing & water supply related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for plumbing & water supply students working on their associate degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Plumbing & Water Supply Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
DEBUG: Raw major_slug = "construction-trades//plumbing-and-water-supply"
Ivy Tech Community College is a great option for individuals interested in an associate degree in plumbing & water supply. Ivy Tech Community College is a fairly large public college located in the large city of Indianapolis.
After graduating, plumbing associate recipients usually earn around $82,191 at the beginning of their careers.
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).
