2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Construction Management in the Southwest Region

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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 the Southwest region, there were 168 construction management graduates with average earnings and debt of $67,050 and $25,507 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 44 construction management graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great construction management programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the construction management program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

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

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

#1

The University of Texas at El Paso

El Paso, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$16,180 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$71,015 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Construction Management Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at El Paso landed the #1 spot on the list. El Paso, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s construction management degrees to 44 students in 2019-2020.

UTEP also took the #1 spot in our “Best Construction Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at The University of Texas at El Paso are $16,180, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Construction Management at UTEP

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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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