an associate degree in heavy/industrial equipment maintenance is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #63 out of 328 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Wisconsin to determine which ones were the best for heavy/industrial equipment maintenance students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 47 associate degrees in heavy/industrial equipment maintenance during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of associate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their associate degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to heavy/industrial equipment maintenance students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other heavy/industrial equipment maintenance students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for heavy/industrial equipment maintenance to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized heavy/industrial equipment maintenance related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for heavy/industrial equipment maintenance students working on their associate degree.
The equipment maintenance school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance Associate Degree Schools in Wisconsin.
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Chippewa Valley Technical College is one of the best schools in the country for getting an associate degree in heavy/industrial equipment maintenance. Located in the small city of Eau Claire, CVTC is a public college with a medium-sized student population.
Associate students who receive their degree from the equipment maintenance program make an average of $62,438 in the first couple years of working.
Rankings in Majors Related to Equipment Maintenance
One of 7 majors within the Mechanic & Repair Technologies area of study, Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance has other similar majors worth exploring.
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.
by our College Data Analytics Team