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2023 Best Value Plumbing & Water Supply Associate Degree Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$7,094 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$53,725 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Plumbing & Water Supply Associate Degree School for You

Plumbing & Water Supply is the #311 most popular major in the country with 2,617 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Plumbing & Water Supply Associate Degree Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 5 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value associate degree programs for plumbing students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Best Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Plumbing & Water Supply

#1

Ivy Tech Community College

Indianapolis, IN

Our 2023 rankings named Ivy Tech Community College the best value school in the United States for plumbing and water supply students working on their associate degree. Ivy Tech Community College is a very large public school located in the city of Indianapolis.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Ivy Tech Community College are $8,927 per year. After completing their Associate Degree, plumbing graduates from Ivy Tech Community College carry an average student debtload of $7,967.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Ivy Tech Community College also is in the top 10% of our Best Plumbing & Water Supply Associate Degree Schools ranking.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend St Cloud Technical and Community College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Plumbing & Water Supply Associate Degree Schools list. St Cloud Technical and Community College is a small public school located in the city of Saint Cloud.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at St Cloud Technical and Community College are $5,874 per year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, St Cloud Technical and Community College also did well on our Best Plumbing & Water Supply Associate Degree Schools list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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The excellent associate degree programs at Metropolitan Community College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value plumbing and water supply schools in the United States. Located in the city of Omaha, MCC is a public school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at MCC are $4,680 a year.

MCC excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Plumbing & Water Supply Associate Degree Schools list.

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Out of the 5 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology landed the # 4 spot on the list. Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology is a small public school located in the city of Lancaster.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology are $8,450 per year. Plumbing majors at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology take out an average of $10,223 in student loans while working on their Associate Degree.

Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology also claimed a spot on our Best Plumbing & Water Supply Associate Degree Schools list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.

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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Central New Mexico Community College is a great value for plumbing and water supply students working on their associate degree. Located in the city of Albuquerque, CNM is a public school with a large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at CNM are $7,540 per year.

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Plumbing & Water Supply by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

One of 6 majors within the area of study, plumbing and water supply has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical & Power Transmission Installers 23,527
Building Management & Inspection 4,511
Carpentry 3,273
Construction 1,435
Masonry 274

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 5 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 Tomwsulcer.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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