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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 878 people earned their degree in construction engineering, making the major the 248th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, construction engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $74,870 and had an average of $24,467 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 226 construction engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,858 and $23,375 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 88 construction engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in construction engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in construction engineering.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Engineering Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering in the Southwest Region

1

The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Arlington. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Engineering Major in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas at Arlington is located in Arlington, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 76 masters’s construction engineering degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Construction Engineering at UT Arlington

2

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Engineering Major in the Southwest Region. UNM is a public institution located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The school has a large population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Construction Engineering Major in the Southwest Region list. ASU - Tempe is a large public school situated in Tempe, Arizona. It awarded 3 masters’s construction engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read full report on Construction Engineering at ASU - Tempe

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Daniel Christensen.