2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering Technology in Colorado

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Construction Engineering Tech Major in Colorado” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Construction Engineering Technology is the 147th most popular major in the country with 4,330 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, construction engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $62,452 and had an average of $22,347 in loans still to pay off.

Across Colorado, there were 212 construction engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,474 and $25,250 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 209 construction engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,670 and $29,027 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Construction Engineering Tech Major in Colorado” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in construction engineering technology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their construction engineering technology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Construction Engineering Tech Major in Colorado

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado bachelor’s degree construction engineering tech students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering Technology in Colorado

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Colorado State University - Fort Collins
Fort Collins, Colorado

#4 overall quality in Colorado

$69,069 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,250 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Construction Engineering Tech Major in Colorado. Colorado State is a large public school situated in Fort Collins, Colorado. It awarded 184 bachelors’s construction engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Colorado State University - Fort Collins Construction Engineering Technology Report

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Colorado Mesa University
Grand Junction, Colorado

$59,879 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado Mesa University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Construction Engineering Tech Major in Colorado. Colorado Mesa is a medium-sized public school situated in Grand Junction, Colorado. It awarded 25 bachelors’s construction engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Construction Engineering Technology at Colorado Mesa University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering Technology in the Rocky Mountains Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering Technology

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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