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2023 Best Value Woodworking Associate Degree Schools

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$6,870 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$37,934 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Woodworking Associate Degree School for You

Woodworking is the #332 most popular major in the country with 431 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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.

The Best Value Woodworking Associate Degree Schools ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the United States to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for woodworking students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Woodworking Associate Degree Schools in the United States

Check out the woodworking associate degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Woodworking

Our 2023 rankings named Northcentral Technical College the best value school in the United States for woodworking students working on their associate degree. Located in the small city of Wausau, North Central Technical College is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

North Central Technical College undergraduate students pay an average of $5,415 in tuition and fees each year.

North Central Technical College excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Woodworking Associate Degree Schools list.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Woodworking Associate Degree Schools list. Located in the small city of Lancaster, Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology is a public college with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology are $8,450 per year. The average amount in student loans that woodworking majors at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology take out while working on their Associate Degree is $13,760.

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

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The excellent associate degree programs at Eastern Maine Community College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value woodworking schools in the United States. Eastern Maine Community College is a small public school located in the small city of Bangor.

Eastern Maine Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $6,745 in tuition and fees each year.

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Woodworking by Region

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

One of 5 majors within the area of study, woodworking has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Woodworking

Related Major Annual Graduates
Precision Metal Working 52,308
Other Precision Production 68
Leatherworking & Upholstery 54
Precision Production Trades 39
Boilermaking 13

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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