TCAT Elizabethton ranked among the top 250 tech schools in U.S.

According to a new list from USA Today, Tennessee College of Applied Technology Elizabethton is ranked among the top 250 technical schools in America for 2025. Rankings are based on graduation rate, graduates’ salary, years it takes to pay off net cost, social mobility and diversity. TCAT Elizabethton made the list with a score of five stars. Tennessee had the fourth-highest number of schools among the 32 states that made the list, with 17 of its institutions in the USA Today in the Top 250 rankings.