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Automotive and Mechanics Schools in Virginia

Virginia contains seventeen schools that offer automotive and mechanics programs. Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center, the highest-ranking automotive and mechanics school in VA, has a total student population of 218 and is the 964th highest ranked school in America.

Of the 17 automotive and mechanics schools in Virginia, only 4 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Aviation Institute of Maintenance-Manassas comes out as the most expensive ($48,127/yr), with New River Community College as the lowest recorded at only $3,925/yr.

Automotive and Mechanics students from Virginia schools who go on to become automotive mechanics, automotive engineers, automotive technicians, mechanics, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 606,990 people working as automotive service technicians and mechanics alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $37,880. Also, Automotive body and related repairers make on average $41,020 per year and there are about 133,290 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Virginia alone, there are 3,150 employed automotive body and related repairers earning an average yearly salary of $47,200. Automotive service technicians and mechanics in this state earn $40,720/yr and there are 18,440 employed.

Also, within the automotive and mechanics schools in Virginia, the average student population is 3,287 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from automotive and mechanics, there are 3782 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,568 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,181, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.

Virginia Interesting Facts

• Virginia was named for England's "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I.
• The major cash crop of Virginia is tobacco and many of the people who live there earn their living from the tobacco industry.
• Jamestown, the first of the original 13 Colonies was founded for the purpose of silk cultivation. Silk to be traded with the Court of King James. After blight fungus destroyed the mulberry trees (silkworm food), sericulturist planted tobacco as a cash crop.
• Jamestown was the first English settlement in the U.S. It was also the first capital of Virginia.
• Virginia is known as "the birthplace of a nation".

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