2022 Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Louisiana

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Louisiana” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 3,473 people earned their degree in construction management, making the major the 153rd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, construction management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $62,233 and had an average of $25,516 in loans still to pay off.

Across Louisiana, there were 361 construction management graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,400 and $17,490 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 206 construction management graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,417 and $24,684 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Louisiana” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in construction management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality construction management programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the construction management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Louisiana

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Louisiana.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Management in Louisiana

#1

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$15,465 Average Net Price

$66,611 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Louisiana list. Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s construction management degrees to 172 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Louisiana State University, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Construction Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Louisiana” ranking. It costs about $15,465 for Louisiana Bachelor’s Degree Construction Management students per year to attend Louisiana State University.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Construction Management at Louisiana State University

#2

University of Louisiana at Monroe

Monroe, Louisiana

#2 in overall quality

$10,453 Average Net Price

$56,641 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Louisiana at Monroe. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in Louisiana list. ULM is a medium-sized public school situated in Monroe, Louisiana. It awarded 34 bachelors’s construction management degrees in 2019-2020.

ULM not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Construction Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Louisiana” list. It costs about $10,453 for Louisiana Bachelor’s Degree Construction Management students per year to attend ULM.

Read more about Construction Management at ULM

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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