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.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Associate Degree Schools in Florida ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,045 associate degrees in vehicle maintenance & repair 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 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 full 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.
The vehicle repair 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 Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Associate Degree Schools in Florida.
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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide is one of the best schools in the country for getting an associate degree in vehicle maintenance & repair. Embry-Riddle Worldwide is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Daytona Beach.
Associate recipients from the vehicle maintenance & repair program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide make $18,226 above the typical graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
Every student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in vehicle maintenance & repair needs to check out Universal Technical Institute - Orlando. UTI Orlando is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the large suburb of Orlando.
Students who graduate with their associate from the vehicle repair program state that they receive average early career earnings of $40,213.
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).
