2022 Best Value Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region
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Construction Trades is the 34th most popular major in the country with 37,535 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, construction trades graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,448 and had an average of $11,769 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 3,844 construction trades graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,595 and $11,542 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 485 construction trades graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 8 colleges that offered a degree in construction trades. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great construction trades programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the construction trades program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree construction trades students.
Top 8 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Construction Trades in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas State Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. Waco, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s construction trades degrees to 150 students in 2019-2020.
TSTC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Texas State Technical College is $10,114 for southwest region associate degree construction trades students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Jacinto Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region. San Jacinto College is a large school located in Pasadena, Texas that handed out 14 associates’s construction trades degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southwest region associate degree construction trades students list, San Jacinto College has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $8,692 for southwest region associate degree construction trades students per year to attend San Jacinto College.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central New Mexico Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. CNM is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 31 associates’s construction trades degrees to qualified students.
CNM also took the #4 spot in our “Best Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $3,429 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Construction Trades students per year to attend CNM.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Austin Community College District. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 32 associates’s construction trades degrees in 2019-2020.
Austin Community College District did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Austin Community College District is $6,861 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Construction Trades students.
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Pima Community College ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. Pima Community College is a fairly large school located in Tucson, Arizona that handed out 10 associates’s construction trades degrees in 2019-2020.
Pima County Community College District did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Pima Community College is $3,583 for southwest region associate degree construction trades students.
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St Philip’s College came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region ranking. St Philip’s College is a fairly large public school situated in San Antonio, Texas. It awarded 11 associates’s construction trades degrees in 2019-2020.
St Philip’s College also took the #5 spot in our “Best Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend St Philip’s College is $6,250 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Construction Trades students.
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Vista College came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Construction Trades Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region ranking. El Paso, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s construction trades degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.
Vista College also made our “Best Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #8. The yearly cost to attend Vista College is $8,306 for southwest region associate degree construction trades students.
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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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