Sheldon, Iowa — One of the programs at Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon has been named one of the best in the nation by an online college aggregator.
According to NCC officials, BestAccreditedColleges.org has named Northwest Iowa Community College’s Automotive & Light-Duty Diesel program fourth on their list of Best Associate Degrees in Automotive Technology in the nation.
A representative of BestAccreditedColleges.org says that they create their guides and school rankings with student education in mind, and this list will help our readers and NCC’s potential students learn about Northwest Iowa Community College’s excellent offerings. They tell us they considered hundreds of institutions across the country and ranked Northwest Iowa Community College using data around financial aid awards, the quality of education, faculty, campus resources, and more.
Representatives of the website tell us that their school rankings only include accredited, non-profit public and private schools. They say their objective approach to judging schools uses a proprietary ranking system, which combines current data points from the U.S. Department of Education with school-specific details.
Data points include Cost of Attendance, Accessibility, and Quality & Value.
The top five institutions for automotive & light-duty diesel programs were
1. North Dakota State College of Science, Wahpeton, North Dakota
2. State Technical College of Missouri, Linn, MO
3. Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA
4. Northwest Iowa Community College, Sheldon, IA
5. SUNY College of Technology at Alfred, Alfred, NY
NCC was also recently recognized by BestAccreditedColleges.org as being sixth in Best Online Associate in Accounting Degrees, twelfth in Best Associate Degrees in Nursing, and twenty-fifth in the nation in Best Associate Degrees in Liberal Arts.
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