If you pursue a associate degree in vehicle maintenance & repair, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #14 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Louisiana 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 45 associate degrees in vehicle maintenance & repair during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
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.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Associate Degree Schools in Louisiana list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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It's difficult to beat South Louisiana Community College if you want to pursue an associate degree in vehicle maintenance & repair. South Louisiana Community College is a moderately-sized public college located in the medium-sized city of Lafayette.
Associate graduates who receive their degree from the vehicle repair program make an average of $30,348 in the first couple years of their career.
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).
