2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Management Major in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Management Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 3,828 people earned their degree in construction management, making the major the 190th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 314 construction management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 48 construction management graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Management Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in construction management. That schools that top this list have a program in construction management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Management Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Management Major in the New England Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Construction Management in the New England Region

1

Wentworth Institute of Technology
Boston, Massachusetts

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Management Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wentworth Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. WIT is a small school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 26 masters’s construction management degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Construction Management at WIT

2

New England Institute of Technology
East Greenwich, Rhode Island

Top 25% overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New England Institute of Technology. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Management Major in the New England Region. This small school is located in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and it awarded 11 masters’s construction management degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Construction Management at New England Institute of Technology

3

Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Connecticut State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Management Major in the New England Region list. CCSU is a medium-sized school located in New Britain, Connecticut that handed out 9 masters’s construction management degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Central Connecticut State University Construction Management Report

4

Roger Williams University
Bristol, Rhode Island

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Management Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Roger Williams University landed the #4 spot on the list. RWU is a small school located in Bristol, Rhode Island that handed out 2 masters’s construction management degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Construction Management at Roger Williams University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Construction Management

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

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