2024 Best Construction Management Schools in California
6Colleges in California
272Construction Management Degrees Awarded
A degree in construction management is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #190 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 6 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for construction management students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 272 degrees in construction management during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of construction management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for construction management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Construction Management Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Construction Management in California
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the construction management degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Southern California is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in construction management. USC is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Los Angeles. A Best Colleges rank of #11 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means USC is a great university overall.
There were about 11 construction management students who graduated with this degree at USC in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in construction management needs to look into California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo. Located in the small suburb of San Luis Obispo, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #95 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a great university overall.
There were roughly 114 construction management students who graduated with this degree at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia if you want to pursue a degree in construction management. Located in the rural area of Visalia, San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia is a private for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 70th out of 168 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 24 construction management students who graduated with this degree at San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat California State University - East Bay if you want to pursue a degree in construction management. Located in the suburb of Hayward, Cal State East Bay is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 61st out of 168 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were approximately 80 construction management students who graduated with this degree at Cal State East Bay in the most recent data year.
Located in the large city of San Diego, National University is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 33rd out of 168 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were approximately 12 construction management students who graduated with this degree at National University in the most recent data year.
Construction Management is one of 2 different types of Construction Management programs to choose from.
Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of construction management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for construction management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
