Vehicle Maintenance & Repair is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #14 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 8 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for vehicle maintenance & repair students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 490 associate degrees in vehicle maintenance & repair during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Vehicle Maintenance & Repair School for Your Associate Degree
The vehicle repair associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. 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 account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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
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 vehicle maintenance & repair students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of vehicle maintenance & repair 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 vehicle maintenance & repair 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 vehicle maintenance & repair related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for vehicle maintenance & repair students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Pennsylvania College of Technology is a great choice for individuals pursuing an associate degree in vehicle maintenance & repair. Located in the small city of Williamsport, Penn College is a public college with a small student population.
Associate recipients from the vehicle maintenance & repair major at Pennsylvania College of Technology get $10,481 more than the average college graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology is one of the finest schools in the country for getting an associate degree in vehicle maintenance & repair. Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology is a small public college located in the small city of Lancaster.
Associate graduates who receive their degree from the vehicle repair program earn around $35,020 in the first couple years of working.
Johnson College is a wonderful choice for individuals pursuing an associate degree in vehicle maintenance & repair. Located in the city of Scranton, Johnson College is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population.
Soon after graduating, vehicle repair associate recipients typically earn around $38,507 in their early careers.
Rosedale Technical College is a fairly small private not-for-profit college located in the suburb of Pittsburgh.
Vehicle Maintenance & Repair associate degree recipients from Rosedale Technical College get an earnings boost of about $2,074 above the typical income of vehicle maintenance & repair majors.
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).
The vehicle repair associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
