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 4 schools in Arizona to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of vehicle maintenance & repair. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,189 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 collection of various 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 Arizona ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Every student who is interested in an associate degree in vehicle maintenance & repair needs to check out Pima Community College. Pima County Community College District is a large public college located in the large city of Tucson.
Those vehicle maintenance & repair students who get their associate degree from Pima Community College receive $8,558 more than the typical vehicle repair graduate.
Universal Technical Institute - Avondale is one of the finest schools in the country for getting an associate degree in vehicle maintenance & repair. UTI Avondale is a small private for-profit school located in the large suburb of Avondale.
Associate students who receive their degree from the vehicle repair program make around $39,458 for their early career.
It's hard to beat Universal Technical Institute - Phoenix if you wish to pursue an associate degree in vehicle maintenance & repair. UTI Phoenix is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the suburb of Avondale.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
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:
