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2023 Best Value Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Associate Degree Schools in Virginia
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Associate Degree School for You
In 2021-2022, vehicle maintenance & repair students earned 595 degrees and certificates from a Virginia school, making the subject the 9th in the state.
There are so many trade school programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house.
The Best Value Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Associate Degree Schools in Virginia ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Virginia to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for vehicle repair students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
Best Virginia Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Vehicle Maintenance & Repair
Our analysis found Northern Virginia Community College to be the best value school for vehicle maintenance & repair students who want to pursue a associate degree in Virginia. Northern Virginia Community College is a very large public school located in the suburb of Annandale.
Northern Virginia Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $5,565 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
Northern Virginia Community College also made our Best Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Associate Degree Trade Schools in Virginia list, coming in at #2.
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Out of the 3 schools in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Tidewater Community College landed the # 2 spot on the list. Tidewater Community College is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Norfolk.
Tidewater Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $5,561 in in-state tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that vehicle repair majors at Tidewater Community College take out while working on their Associate Degree is $10,446.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Advanced Technology Institute. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Associate Degree Schools in Virginia list. ATI is a small private for-profit school located in the city of Virginia Beach.
ATI undergraduate students pay an average of $13,920 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
Request InformationBest Value Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Colleges in the Southeast Region
Explore all the Best Value Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.
State | Degrees Awarded |
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South Carolina | 416 |
Georgia | 3,279 |
Arkansas | 945 |
North Carolina | 3,010 |
Florida | 3,722 |
West Virginia | 82 |
Louisiana | 761 |
Tennessee | 1,165 |
Alabama | 491 |
Kentucky | 2,936 |
Mississippi | 563 |
Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Related Majors for Vehicle Repair
Vehicle Maintenance & Repair is one of 7 different types of trade school programs to choose from.
Vehicle Repair Concentrations
Most Popular Related Majors
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration | 21,891 |
Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance | 8,446 |
Electronics Maintenance & Repair | 8,127 |
Precision Systems Maintenance | 2,185 |
Mechanic & Repair Tech (Other) | 1,184 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 3 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 Airman 1st Class Nigel Sandridge.
More about our data sources and methodologies.