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2023 Best Value Heating, Ventilation, Air & Cooling Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

7 Colleges
$2,520 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$34,842 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration School for You

Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration is the #135 most popular major in North Carolina with 128 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Heating, Ventilation, Air & Cooling Schools in North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 7 schools in North Carolina to see which ones offered the best value programs for HVACR students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration Schools in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration Colleges.

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality in Heating, Ventilation, Air & Cooling

$2,152 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Forsyth Technical Community College the best value school in North Carolina for heating, air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration students. Located in the city of Winston-Salem, Forsyth Tech is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

Forsyth Tech undergraduate students pay an average of $2,152 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Central Piedmont Community College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Heating, Ventilation, Air & Cooling Schools in North Carolina list. Located in the large city of Charlotte, Central Piedmont Community College is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Central Piedmont Community College are $2,792 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Central Piedmont Community College also did well on our Best Heating, Ventilation, Air & Cooling Schools in North Carolina list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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$2,289 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 7 schools in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Guilford Technical Community College landed the # 3 spot on the list. Guilford Technical Community College is a moderately-sized public school located in the medium-sized suburb of Jamestown.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Guilford Technical Community College are $2,289 a year.

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Out of the 7 schools in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Wake Technical Community College landed the # 4 spot on the list. Wake Technical Community College is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Raleigh.

Wake Technical Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $2,768 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Wake Technical Community College is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Heating, Ventilation, Air & Cooling Schools in North Carolina list.

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$2,462 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 7 schools in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Coastal Carolina Community College landed the # 5 spot on the list. Coastal Carolina Community College is a small public school located in the small city of Jacksonville.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Coastal Carolina Community College are $2,462 per year.

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$2,544 Average Tuition & Fees

Fayetteville Technical Community College landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value heating, air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration programs. Located in the midsize city of Fayetteville, FTCC is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

FTCC undergraduate students pay an average of $2,544 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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$2,632 Average Tuition & Fees

Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Heating, Ventilation, Air & Cooling Schools in North Carolina ranking. Located in the small city of Asheville, A-B Tech is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at A-B Tech are $2,632 a year.

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Best Value Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation & Refrigeration Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 43
Virginia 48
Tennessee 11
Kentucky 41
South Carolina 24
Louisiana 2
Arkansas 28
Alabama 4
Mississippi 69
West Virginia 1

One of 7 majors within the area of study, heating, air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to HVACR

Related Major Annual Graduates
Vehicle Maintenance & Repair 56,539
Heavy/Industrial Equipment Maintenance 8,717
Electronics Maintenance & Repair 7,770
Precision Systems Maintenance 1,932
Mechanic & Repair Tech (Other) 1,267

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 7 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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