2022 Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 the Great Lakes region, there were 607 construction management graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,233 and $27,099 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 construction management graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the construction management program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Construction Management in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Eastern Michigan University

Ypsilanti, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$26,552 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Michigan University landed the #1 spot on the list. Eastern Michigan is a fairly large public school situated in Ypsilanti, Michigan. It awarded 6 masters’s construction management degrees in 2019-2020.

Eastern Michigan not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Construction Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Eastern Michigan are $26,552.

Read full report on Construction Management at Eastern Michigan

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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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