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Most Popular Online Drafting & Design Engineering Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Southeast Region

2023 Most Popular Online Drafting & Design Engineering Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Southeast Region

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Drafting & Design Engineering Technology is the #20 most popular major in the country with 8,822 degrees and certificates awarded in 2021-2022.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which trade school program is right for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Trade College Search has created its Most Popular Online Drafting & Design Engineering Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 9 schools in the Southeast Region to see which online basic certificate programs were the most popular for trade school students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Online Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Basic Certificate Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named West Kentucky Community and Technical College the most popular online school in the Southeast Region for drafting & design engineering technology students working on their basic certificate. Located in the town of Paducah, West Kentucky Community and Technical College is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

About 47% of the students majoring in design engineering tech at the school are women while 53% are male.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Elizabethtown Community and Technical College is a great place for drafting & design engineering technology students working on their online basic certificate. Elizabethtown Community and Technical College is a moderately-sized public school located in the small city of Elizabethtown.

Women make up 4% of the design engineering tech majors at the school.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Chattahoochee Technical College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Drafting & Design Engineering Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Southeast Region list. Chattahoochee Technical College is a medium-sized public school located in the suburb of Marietta.

Of the 53 students majoring in design engineering tech at Chattahoochee Technical College, 64% are male and 36% are female.

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#4

Delgado Community College

New Orleans, LA

Out of the 9 online programs at schools in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Delgado Community College landed the # 4 spot on the list. Delgado Community College is a fairly large public school located in the city of New Orleans.

About 9% of the students majoring in design engineering tech at the school are women while 91% are male.

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Out of the 9 online programs at schools in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Piedmont Technical College landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the suburb of Clarkston, Georgia Piedmont Technical College is a public school with a small student population.

Women make up 50% of the design engineering tech majors at the school.

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Albany Technical College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Online Drafting & Design Engineering Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Albany Technical College is a small public school located in the city of Albany.

About 60% of the students majoring in design engineering tech at the school are women while 40% are male.

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Georgia Northwestern Technical College ranked #7 on this year’s Most Popular Online Drafting & Design Engineering Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Southeast Region list. Located in the city of Rome, Georgia Northwestern Technical College is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

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Mountain Empire Community College did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular online places for drafting & design engineering technology students to get a basic certificate. It came in at #8 on the list. MECC is a small public school located in the town of Big Stone Gap.

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#9

Hodges University

Fort Myers, FL

Hodges University landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular online basic certificate drafting & design engineering technology programs. Located in the city of Fort Myers, International College is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly small student population.

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Explore the most popular online drafting & design engineering technology schools for a specific state in the Southeast region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 339
South Carolina 112
Arkansas 78
North Carolina 97
Florida 450
West Virginia 8
Louisiana 183
Virginia 115
Alabama 212
Kentucky 307
Tennessee 122
Mississippi 227

Drafting & Design Engineering Technology is one of 18 different types of trade school programs to choose from.

Design Engineering Tech Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
General Drafting & Design Technology 4,028
CAD/CADD Drafting &/or Design Technology 2,179
Architectural Drafting & Architectural CAD/CADD 1,318
Mechanical Drafting & Mechanical Drafting CAD/CADD 1,058
Civil Drafting & Civil Engineering CAD/CADD 104
Other Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies 72
Electrical/Electronics Drafting & Electrical/Electronics CAD/CADD 47

Majors Similar to Design Engineering Tech

Related Major Annual Graduates
Industrial Production Technology 11,288
Electromechanical Engineering Technology 10,780
Environmental Control Technology 9,376
Electronics Engineering Technology 8,347
Engineering-Related Fields 6,553

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 9 schools only.

  • 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Pixabay.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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