an associate degree in construction management is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #128 out of 328 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Construction Management Associate Degree Schools in California ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 56 associate degrees in construction management during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Early-Career Earnings
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to construction management students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other construction management students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt construction management students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized construction management related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for construction management students working on their associate degree.
The construction management school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Construction Management Associate Degree Schools in California.
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It's hard to beat San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia if you wish to pursue an associate degree in construction management. San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia is a small private for-profit college located in the midsize city of Visalia.
Students who graduate with their associate from the construction management program report average early career earnings of $53,053.
Any student who is interested in an associate degree in construction management needs to take a look at San Joaquin Valley College-Ontario. Located in the midsize city of Ontario, is a private for-profit college with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their associate from the construction management program report average early career wages of $53,053.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
