When it comes to popularity, a master's degree in construction engineering technology sits in the middle of the road, ranking #194 out of 343 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual reviewed 5 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of construction engineering technology. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 383 master's degrees in construction engineering technology during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Construction Engineering Technology School for Your Master's Degree
The construction engineering tech master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality construction engineering tech 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
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree 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
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's 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 much a school focuses on construction engineering technology students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other construction engineering technology students want to attend this school to pursue a master's 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 engineering technology students go into to obtain their master's 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 engineering technology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for construction engineering technology students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Construction Engineering Technology Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Arizona State University - Tempe is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in construction engineering technology. Located in the midsize city of Tempe, ASU - Tempe is a public university with a very large student population.
Master's students who receive their degree from the construction engineering tech program earn about $88,786 in their early career salary.
ASU - Skysong is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Scottsdale.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the construction engineering tech program earn an average of $88,786 in the first couple years of working.
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).