2025 Best General Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region
2Colleges in the Far Western US Region
240Associate Degrees
If you plan on getting your associate degree in general construction trades, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #185 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 240 associate degrees in general construction trades during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general construction trades students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general construction trades 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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general construction trades related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general construction trades students working on their associate degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Rankings in Majors Related to General Construction Trades
One of 0 majors within the Construction area of study, General Construction Trades has other similar majors worth exploring.
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Notes and References
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
