2023 Most Well Attended Construction Major in Colorado

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Construction Major in Colorado” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Construction is the 284th most popular major in the country with 1,435 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, construction graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $33,364 and had an average of $9,374 in loans still to pay off.

Across Colorado, there were 98 construction graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Construction Major in Colorado” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in construction. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular construction programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Construction Major in Colorado

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Construction Major in Colorado”.

Top 3 Most Popular Colleges for Construction in Colorado

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Lamar Community College
Lamar, Colorado

$35,899 Average Early-Career Earnings

$18,850 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Construction Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Lamar Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Lamar Community College is a small school located in Lamar, Colorado that handed out 36 ’s construction degrees in 2020-2021.

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Colorado Mesa University
Grand Junction, Colorado

$38,493 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,621 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Construction Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado Mesa University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Grand Junction, Colorado, this medium-sized public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified ’s construction students in 2020-2021.

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Trinidad State Junior College
Trinidad, Colorado

#24 overall quality in Colorado

$38,359 Average Early-Career Earnings

$14,767 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Construction Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Trinidad State Junior College landed the #3 spot on the list. Trinidad State Junior College is a small school located in Trinidad, Colorado that handed out 0 ’s construction degrees in 2020-2021.

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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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