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Fuel Your Career: Nation’s Premier Automotive Technology Program

Our program will prepare you for careers in the forefront of the automotive industry in any area you choose to focus, from managing a corporation’s fleet of cars to running your own high tech garage, from sales and marketing to new technology. A Bachelor’s Degree in Automotive Technology from SIU can lead you to work at a headquarters setting of a major automotive brand.

Widely considered the premier Automotive Technology program in the nation, we are known for developing students into highly skilled and capable industry leaders. By focusing on a thorough understanding of technology and hands-on, high-level diagnostics, combined with industry-specific business and management knowledge and its application, our students are prepared for a wide range of careers. Nearly all students accept full-time career offers even before they graduate.

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Bachelor's Degree

Our program will prepare you for careers in the forefront of the automotive industry in any area you choose to focus on, from managing a corporation’s fleet of cars to running your own high-tech garage, from sales and marketing to new technology.

Minor in Automotive

We offer a minor in automotive, truck, and equipment management that provides a focused curriculum to prepare students seeking to enter the fields of management, marketing, planning, and support operations with major industry manufacturers, parts and component suppliers, service and parts suppliers, or government agencies.

Facilities

The main building of the SIU Transportation Education Center (TEC) is a 186,000 square-foot LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver certified facility that houses the university’s Automotive and Aviation programs. A separate 32,000 square-foot building houses automotive components, materials, and approximately half of the school's 120 vehicles.