Milton, MA has three plumbing schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Boston University, the highest ranked school in this group with a plumbing program, has a total student population of 31,960. It is the 32nd highest ranked school in the USA and the 5th highest in the state of Massachusetts (#1 is Harvard University).
Plumbing students from Milton schools who go on to become plumbers, journeyman plumbers, plumber gasfitters, residental plumbers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment.
Milton lies in Norfolk county, which is one of the 12 counties in Massachusetts. Overall, the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy NECTA area has 1,685,900 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $28.04/hr average worker wage, and a $58,330 average annual salary.
Of the 3 plumbing schools with a 100-mile radius of Milton, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Boston University comes out as the most expensive ($28,548/yr) for plumbing students, with University of New Hampshire-Main Campus as the lowest, reported at only $16,600/yr.
Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Milton |
Brookline | MA | 55,248 | 4 | 18.3285 | 60 | 6.2 miles |
Weymouth | MA | 55,115 | 0 | - | 0 | 6.5 miles |
Boston | MA | 610,407 | 34 | 31.8192 | 1,194 | 6.7 miles |
Chestnut Hill | MA | - | 2 | 53.2355 | 134 | 7.9 miles |
Brighton | MA | - | 3 | 22.1394 | 9 | 8.3 miles |
Needham | MA | - | 1 | 85.1852 | 4 | 8.8 miles |
Cambridge | MA | 108,135 | 7 | 39.5149 | 268 | 9.4 miles |
Somerville | MA | 75,604 | 1 | 21.9743 | 9 | 9.9 miles |
Watertown | MA | - | 4 | 19.8045 | 105 | 10.3 miles |
Chelsea | MA | 44,282 | 1 | 26.6747 | 5 | 10.6 miles |
Brockton | MA | 92,742 | 6 | 30.966 | 101 | 11.9 miles |
Wellesley | MA | - | 2 | 79.2832 | 74 | 12.0 miles |
Malden | MA | 55,904 | 4 | 25.7416 | 22 | 12.5 miles |
Waltham | MA | 60,722 | 3 | 63.6138 | 127 | 13.2 miles |
Woburn | MA | - | 3 | 29.2811 | 25 | 16.5 miles |
Framingham | MA | 64,549 | 2 | 43.2155 | 61 | 19.6 miles |
Peabody | MA | 51,672 | 0 | - | 0 | 20.0 miles |
North Attleborough | MA | 43,307 | 0 | - | 0 | 23.6 miles |
Billerica | MA | 40,949 | 1 | 35.5405 | 2 | 23.6 miles |
Taunton | MA | 55,679 | 1 | 23.0007 | 3 | 24.2 miles |
Attleboro | MA | 42,840 | 0 | - | 0 | 25.1 miles |
Woonsocket | RI | 42,967 | 0 | - | 0 | 28.2 miles |
Lowell | MA | 104,063 | 4 | 27.7393 | 100 | 30.0 miles |
Pawtucket | RI | 71,155 | 3 | 14.7207 | 9 | 30.5 miles |
North Andover | MA | - | 1 | 30.19 | 56 | 31.3 miles |
Smithfield | RI | - | 2 | 41.9902 | 100 | 33.6 miles |
East Providence | RI | 48,249 | 1 | 29.3002 | 11 | 34.6 miles |
Providence | RI | 170,868 | 6 | 59.8209 | 418 | 34.8 miles |
Fall River | MA | 90,721 | 4 | 21.7318 | 82 | 37.4 miles |
Worcester | MA | 174,854 | 11 | 28.6428 | 380 | 38.1 miles |