2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Management in North Carolina

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Construction Management is the 153rd most popular major in the country with 3,473 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 North Carolina, there were 99 construction management graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,900 and $20,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 98 construction management graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,192 and $24,368 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent construction management programs, but they also cost less that 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Management in North Carolina

#1

Appalachian State University

Boone, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$13,920 Average Net Price

$56,114 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Appalachian State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina. Appalachian State is located in Boone, North Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 98 bachelors’s construction management degrees to qualified students.

Appalachian State also made our “Best Construction Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $13,920 for North Carolina Bachelor’s Degree Construction Management students per year to attend Appalachian 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. The low student loan default rate of 3.9% 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 more about Construction Management at Appalachian State University

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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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