2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Construction Trades in Wisconsin

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Construction Trades Major in Wisconsin” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 35,794 people earned their degree in construction trades, making the major the 34th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, construction trades graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,184 and had an average of $11,556 in loans still to pay off.

Across Wisconsin, there were 1,075 construction trades graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,598 and $5,317 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 30 construction trades graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,118 and $20,107 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Construction Trades Major in Wisconsin” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in construction trades. That schools that top this list have a program in construction trades in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Construction Trades Major in Wisconsin

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Construction Trades Major in Wisconsin”.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Construction Trades in Wisconsin

1

Western Technical College
La Crosse, Wisconsin

#17 overall quality in Wisconsin

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Construction Trades Major in Wisconsin list. Western Technical College is a small public school situated in La Crosse, Wisconsin. It awarded 16 associates’s construction trades degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full Western Technical College Construction Trades Report

2

Fox Valley Technical College
Appleton, Wisconsin

#22 overall quality in Wisconsin

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Fox Valley Technical College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Construction Trades Major in Wisconsin. FVTC is located in Appleton, Wisconsin and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 associates’s construction trades degrees to qualified students.

Full FVTC Construction Trades Report

3

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Green Bay, Wisconsin

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Construction Trades Major in Wisconsin list. This fairly large school is located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and it awarded 5 associates’s construction trades degrees in 2020-2021.

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4

Chippewa Valley Technical College
Eau Claire, Wisconsin

#25 overall quality in Wisconsin

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Chippewa Valley Technical College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Construction Trades Major in Wisconsin list. Located in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, this medium-sized public school handed out 121 degrees to qualified associates’s construction trades students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Construction Trades at Chippewa Valley Technical College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Construction Trades in the Great Lakes Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Construction Trades

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.