2025 Best Construction Management Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
7Colleges in the Plains States Region
141Associate Degrees
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.
College Factual looked at 7 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Construction Management Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 141 associate degrees in construction management to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Construction Management School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of construction management for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality construction management program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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 the Plains States Region.
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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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
Your choice of construction management for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality construction management program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
