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Best Schools for Machine Shop Technology/Assistant in Indiana
If you are not interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the machine shop technology/assistant degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Schools in Machine Shop Technology/Assistant
Our analysis ranked Ivy Tech Community College the best school in the country for a degree in machine shop technology/assistant. Set in the city of Indianapolis, Ivy Tech Community College is a very large public institution. There were roughly 182 machine shop technology/assistant students who graduated with this degree at Ivy Tech Community College in the most recent data year. Students who receive their machine shop technology/assistant degree from Ivy Tech Community College earn around $49,030 in the first couple years of their career. Ivy Tech Community College graduates carry a median of $6,599 in student loans.
See the full machine shop technology/assistant program report for Ivy Tech Community College
Notes and References
This ranking is produced by College Factual (MF_RANKING_2025), 2026 edition. The methodology weighs graduation rate, post-graduation earnings, cost, and program quality, drawn primarily from the U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS and College Scorecard).
Ranking method: College Major Top Ranked · 1 school evaluated.
- 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 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).
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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