2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Construction Management in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 3,846 people earned their degree in construction management, making the major the 150th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, construction management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $66,201 and had an average of $24,806 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 200 construction management graduates with average earnings and debt of $70,245 and $25,875 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 44 construction management graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in construction management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in construction management.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Management Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree construction management students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Construction Management in the Southwest Region

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The University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, Texas

$68,367 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Management Major 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. UTEP is a public institution located in El Paso, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 44 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Construction Management at UTEP

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The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at San Antonio. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Management Major in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas at San Antonio is located in San Antonio, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s construction management degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 5.0% 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 full report on Construction Management at The University of Texas at San Antonio

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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