Best Installation programs in Georgia, ranked by enrollment
All installation, maintenance, and repair workers not listed.
9 schools in Georgia run programs that feed this job, graduating 104 people a year. The job pays a median of $48,490 in Georgia across about 7,430 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).
Fields of study in Georgia that lead to this job
Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.
1 programs in Georgia that lead to this job
Ranked by graduates per year in Georgia (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Georgia page.
| # | Program | Graduates / yr | Share of pipeline | Schools | Grad earnings (1 yr) | Median debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CIP 47.0101In Georgia → | 104 | 100.0% | 9 | $37,415 | $9,500 |
Top 9 schools in Georgia
Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 0 of the 9 schools in this state.
All 9 schools in Georgia
Every school in Georgia with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.
| School | City | Control | Graduates / yr | Feeder programs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Georgia Technical College | Warner Robins | Public | 29 | 1 |
| Wiregrass Georgia Technical College | Valdosta | Public | 27 | 1 |
| South Georgia Technical College | Americus | Public | 10 | 1 |
| Coastal Pines Technical College | Waycross | Public | 9 | 1 |
| Southeastern Technical College | Vidalia | Public | 9 | 1 |
| Albany Technical College | Albany | Public | 8 | 1 |
| Interactive College of Technology - Chamblee | Chamblee | Private for-profit | 7 | 1 |
| Oconee Fall Line Technical College | Sandersville | Public | 3 | 1 |
| West Georgia Technical College | Waco | Public | 2 | 1 |
What installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other earn in Georgia
What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.
U.S. median $49,230. Georgia pays below the national figure.
Concentrated here: Georgia employs more of this job per worker than the U.S. average.
Metro areas in Georgia
Job outlook
Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.
Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.
How to get in
The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other page.
How to become a Installation
Job zone 2 of 5 · SVP Below 6.0- Typical entry education
- High school diploma or equivalent
- On-the-job training
- Moderate-term on-the-job training
Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.
Some occupations may need little or no previous experience; others require several months to a year of experience. For example, landscaping and groundskeeping workers might require very little training or previous experience, while agricultural equipment operators can benefit from on-the job training.
Ranges from a few days to one year of on-the-job training.
Top skills
The same job in other states
Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.
Related careers in Georgia
Every major mapped to this job
The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.
All 9 majors mapped to Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other7 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
- 47.0000Mechanics and Repairers, General
- 47.0101Electrical/Electronics Equipment Installation and Repair Technology/Technician, General
- 47.0402Gunsmithing/Gunsmith
- 47.0409Parts and Warehousing Operations and Maintenance Technology/Technician
- 47.0701Energy Systems Installation and Repair Technology/Technician
- 47.0703Solar Energy System Installation and Repair Technology/Technician
- 47.0705Hydroelectric Energy System Installation and Repair Technology/Technician(no graduates reported)
- 47.0706Geothermal Energy System Installation and Repair Technology/Technician(no graduates reported)
- 47.0799Energy Systems Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians, Other
Common questions
Answers for people weighing installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other programs in Georgia.
What degree do you need to become an Installation?+
High school diploma or equivalent is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Electrical/Electronics Equipment Installation and Repair Technology/Technician, General, which awarded 104 degrees in Georgia in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.
Which college majors lead to becoming an Installation?+
The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Electrical/Electronics Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians. Together they graduate about 104 people a year in Georgia.
How much do installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other earn in Georgia?+
The median is $48,490 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 1.5% below the U.S. median of $49,230. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.
Is demand for installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other growing?+
BLS projects a +2.4% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, about as fast as average, with roughly 21,500 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.
How many schools offer programs for this career in Georgia?+
9 institutions in Georgia reported graduates from at least one of the 1 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.
What other job titles do installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other work under?+
Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Plant Technician, Operations Technician, Operations and Maintenance Technician (O and M Technician), I C and E Technician (Instrumentation, Control, and Electrical Technician) among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 49-9099.
About the data on this page
Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).
BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics
May 2025Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.
BLS Employment Projections
2024–34Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.
IPEDS Completions
2024-25 (provisional)Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.
College Scorecard, Field of Study
2020-21 cohortsMedian graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.
Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes
latest availableGraduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.
NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk
CIP 2020 / SOC 2018Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.
O*NET Database 30.3
30.3Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.
Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA
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