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Best Vocational & Technical Schools

By David Krug, Co-Founder, CollegeRanker · Updated 2026-05-31 · 50 schools · Agent Insights
50
Schools Analyzed
$46,561
Avg. Earnings (10yr)
45%
Avg. Graduation Rate
$6,897
Avg. Net Price

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This ranking scores 50 institutions on graduation rates, graduate earnings, debt burdens, and social mobility data from Opportunity Insights. Every data point comes from federal sources. No surveys, no opinions.

Social mobility carries the heaviest weight in our algorithm. We use Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card — built on 30 million anonymized tax records — to measure whether a college changes a family's economic trajectory across generations. Schools that take low-income students and launch them into higher earnings rank higher than schools that admit wealthy students and take credit for their success.

The transparency penalty matters here. Schools that don't report their data get scored lower than schools that do. If an institution won't show you its numbers, we think you should know that before you write them a tuition check.

Quick Numbers

Schools ranked 50
Avg. earnings at 10yr $46,561
Avg. graduation rate 45%
Avg. net price $6,897
Avg. median debt $9,722

How We Ranked

Value score for sub-baccalaureate institutions

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Earnings vs. Cost

Each dot is a ranked school. Up = higher earnings. Right = higher cost. Top-left is the best value.

$15K$68K$120K$0$50KNET PRICEFashion InstituteBrigham YoungSouthern UtahNew MexicoIrvine Valley

Graduation Rates

Longer bars = higher graduation rate.

Fashion Institute of Tec…82%Brigham Young University…55%Southern Utah University60%New Mexico Military Inst…41%Irvine Valley College57%Western Texas College56%Utah State University58%Raritan Valley Community…33%Saddleback College46%Northwest Iowa Community…57%Bismarck State College48%Lake Land College56%Williston State College41%Garden City Community Co…46%Pasadena City College44%Warren County Community …43%College of Southern Idaho34%Dodge City Community Col…33%Eastern Wyoming College51%Hutchinson Community Col…49%

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Full Rankings

#1

Fashion Institute of Technology

New York, NY · 7,637 students · Public

60% accepted 82% graduate $62,696 earnings
Fashion's full profile
#2

Brigham Young University-Idaho

Rexburg, ID · 44,397 students · Private nonprofit

96% accepted 55% graduate $53,406 earnings
Brigham's full profile
#3

Southern Utah University

Cedar City, UT · 9,289 students · Public

82% accepted 60% graduate $50,296 earnings
Southern's full profile
#4

New Mexico Military Institute

Roswell, NM · 331 students · Public

53% accepted 41% graduate $57,410 earnings
New's full profile
#5

Irvine Valley College

Irvine, CA · 10,286 students · Public

57% graduate $49,156 earnings
Irvine's full profile
#6

Western Texas College

Snyder, TX · 599 students · Public

56% graduate $42,508 earnings
Western's full profile
#7

Utah State University

Logan, UT · 20,272 students · Public

92% accepted 58% graduate $54,022 earnings
Utah's full profile
#8

Raritan Valley Community College

Branchburg, NJ · 5,416 students · Public

33% graduate $48,145 earnings
Raritan's full profile
#9

Saddleback College

Mission Viejo, CA · 17,684 students · Public

46% graduate $50,874 earnings
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#10

Northwest Iowa Community College

Sheldon, IA · 864 students · Public

57% graduate $50,776 earnings
Northwest's full profile
#11

Bismarck State College

Bismarck, ND · 2,839 students · Public

48% graduate $54,277 earnings
Bismarck's full profile
#12

Lake Land College

Mattoon, IL · 2,448 students · Public

56% graduate $38,877 earnings
Lake's full profile
#13

Williston State College

Williston, ND · 651 students · Public

41% graduate $44,017 earnings
Williston's full profile
#14

Garden City Community College

Garden City, KS · 1,474 students · Public

46% graduate $41,704 earnings
Garden's full profile
#15

Pasadena City College

Pasadena, CA · 21,466 students · Public

44% graduate $43,937 earnings
Pasadena's full profile
#16

Warren County Community College

Washington, NJ · 836 students · Public

43% graduate $43,359 earnings
Warren's full profile
#17

College of Southern Idaho

Twin Falls, ID · 3,810 students · Public

34% graduate $40,916 earnings
College's full profile
#18

Dodge City Community College

Dodge City, KS · 1,106 students · Public

33% graduate $45,427 earnings
Dodge's full profile
#19

Eastern Wyoming College

Torrington, WY · 482 students · Public

51% graduate $37,121 earnings
Eastern's full profile
#20

Hutchinson Community College

Hutchinson, KS · 3,039 students · Public

49% graduate $43,470 earnings
Hutchinson's full profile
#21

Pratt Community College

Pratt, KS · 579 students · Public

44% graduate $51,892 earnings
Pratt's full profile
#22

College of the Sequoias

Visalia, CA · 11,562 students · Public

36% graduate $39,092 earnings
College's full profile
#23

Moraine Valley Community College

Palos Hills, IL · 7,490 students · Public

37% graduate $43,892 earnings
Moraine's full profile
#24

Weber State University

Ogden, UT · 16,360 students · Public

45% graduate $56,287 earnings
Weber's full profile
#25

Lewis and Clark Community College

Godfrey, IL · 2,487 students · Public

46% graduate $37,724 earnings
Lewis's full profile
#26

College of the Canyons

Santa Clarita, CA · 15,832 students · Public

44% graduate $49,022 earnings
College's full profile
#27

Utah Valley University

Orem, UT · 28,453 students · Public

43% graduate $55,486 earnings
Utah's full profile
#28

Brazosport College

Lake Jackson, TX · 2,622 students · Public

47% graduate $45,910 earnings
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#29

Williamson College of the Trades

Media, PA · 322 students · Private nonprofit

22% accepted 74% graduate
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#30

SUNY College of Technology at Alfred

Alfred, NY · 3,563 students · Public

76% accepted 54% graduate $50,445 earnings
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#31

Pittsburg State University

Pittsburg, KS · 4,210 students · Public

89% accepted 57% graduate $50,579 earnings
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#32

Bristol Community College

Fall River, MA · 6,083 students · Public

22% graduate $38,663 earnings
Bristol's full profile
#33

Fox Valley Technical College

Appleton, WI · 5,825 students · Public

63% graduate $45,684 earnings
Fox's full profile
#34

Snead State Community College

Boaz, AL · 1,427 students · Public

49% graduate $35,735 earnings
Snead's full profile
#35

University of Southern Indiana

Evansville, IN · 5,292 students · Public

96% accepted 50% graduate $47,605 earnings
University's full profile
#36

Illinois Valley Community College

Oglesby, IL · 2,040 students · Public

43% graduate $40,810 earnings
Illinois's full profile
#37

Carroll Community College

Westminster, MD · 1,990 students · Public

43% graduate $44,349 earnings
Carroll's full profile
#38

Northern Oklahoma College

Tonkawa, OK · 1,941 students · Public

44% graduate $37,566 earnings
Northern's full profile
#39

Sussex County Community College

Newton, NJ · 2,086 students · Public

40% graduate $44,664 earnings
Sussex's full profile
#40

County College of Morris

Randolph, NJ · 5,360 students · Public

35% graduate $50,243 earnings
County's full profile
#41

Elgin Community College

Elgin, IL · 6,648 students · Public

41% graduate $45,516 earnings
Elgin's full profile
#42

North Dakota State College of Science

Wahpeton, ND · 1,909 students · Public

52% graduate $50,513 earnings
North's full profile
#43

Montgomery College

Rockville, MD · 13,773 students · Public

30% graduate $50,159 earnings
Montgomery's full profile
#44

Suffolk County Community College

Selden, NY · 14,218 students · Public

27% graduate $49,907 earnings
Suffolk's full profile
#45

Northern Virginia Community College

Annandale, VA · 33,048 students · Public

35% graduate $53,557 earnings
Northern's full profile
#46

Wharton County Junior College

Wharton, TX · 4,585 students · Public

24% graduate $44,960 earnings
Wharton's full profile
#47

Moraine Park Technical College

Fond du Lac, WI · 2,464 students · Public

54% graduate $44,371 earnings
Moraine's full profile
#48

San Joaquin Delta College

Stockton, CA · 15,781 students · Public

33% graduate $43,212 earnings
San's full profile
#49

Macomb Community College

Warren, MI · 13,876 students · Public

17% graduate $41,596 earnings
Macomb's full profile
#50

Germanna Community College

Locust Grove, VA · 5,508 students · Public

42% graduate $39,644 earnings
Germanna's full profile

Sources & Citations

[1]

U.S. Department of Education. College Scorecard Data. Federal Student Aid, National Center for Education Statistics.

[2]

National Center for Education Statistics. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).

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David Krug

Co-Founder, CollegeRanker

David Krug is the co-founder of CollegeRanker and a data systems architect focused on making institutional research accessible to families. He builds the data pipelines and ranking algorithms that power CollegeRanker, drawing from federal datasets and Raj Chetty's Opportunity Insights research to measure what traditional rankings ignore: whether a college actually changes a family's economic trajectory.