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Automotive Technology

Training today’s highly-skilled technicians

Whether it’s designing and testing vehicles as an engineer, or diagnosing and repairing them as technician, or working with customers in service and parts departments – automotive technology is a hot career. Being the sector with the most employment and incredible technology changing every few months, today’s technicians need to be highly skilled and versatile in order to make great salaries.

Automotive Technician

Diagnose problems and repair cars and light trucks.

 

Median to Top Salary

$51,300 - $75,700

Future Outlook*

6,447 OPENINGS

Automotive Engineering

Work in the design, development, testing, application, modification and maintenance of vehicles and their components for use in transportation systems.

Median to Top Salary

$89,600 - $131,800

Future Outlook*

2,061 OPENINGS

Find the right college for you

Minnesota State has 25 colleges with transportation related program pathways. Below is the list of colleges that support these career pathways. Expand each one to see what each college offers!

Campus Location
13100 College View Dr, Eden Prairie, MN 55347
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Hennepin Technical college building exterior
Campus Location
2101 Trinity Rd, Duluth, MN 55811
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Lake superior college
Campus Location
1515 E 25th St, Hibbing, MN 55746
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Campus Location
851 30th Ave SE, Rochester, MN 55904
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Rochester community and technical college
Campus Location
1920 Lee Boulevard North Mankato, MN 56003
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*All data is from the Minnesota State Transportation Center of Excellence’s Demand Analysis and Minnesota’s Department of Employment and Economic Development Labor Market Information. *Future Outlook is the number of job openings over the next five years.

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