If you're seeking an Associate Degree in transportation & materials moving, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #31 one in the country in terms of popularity.As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for transportation & materials moving students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 168 associate degrees in transportation & materials moving during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Transportation & Materials Moving School for Your Associate Degree
The transportation & materials moving 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
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality 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 much a school focuses on transportation & materials moving students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of transportation & materials moving students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
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 transportation & materials moving to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized transportation & materials moving related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for transportation & materials moving students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Transportation & Materials Moving Schools
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 Transportation & Materials Moving Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
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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 transportation & materials moving 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:
