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.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Maine to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of vehicle maintenance & repair. Combined, these schools handed out 37 associate degrees in vehicle maintenance & repair to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Vehicle Maintenance & Repair School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of vehicle maintenance & repair for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality vehicle repair 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
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
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 vehicle maintenance & repair students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other vehicle maintenance & repair 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 vehicle maintenance & repair to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
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.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Associate Degree Schools in Maine list to help you make the college decision.
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Northern Maine Community College is a good option for students interested in an associate degree in vehicle maintenance & repair. Located in the town of Presque Isle, Northern Maine Community College is a public college with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their associate from the vehicle repair program state that they receive average early career wages of $40,977.
Any student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in vehicle maintenance & repair needs to look into Central Maine Community College. Central Maine Technical College is a small public college located in the city of Auburn.
Students who graduate with their associate from the vehicle repair program state that they receive average early career earnings of $43,372.
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 vehicle maintenance & repair for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality vehicle repair program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
