2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Trades (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Construction Trades Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Construction Trades is the 34th most popular major in the country with 37,535 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, construction trades graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,448 and had an average of $11,769 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 174 construction trades graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Construction Trades Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in construction trades. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality construction trades programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the construction trades program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Construction Trades Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Construction Trades Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Construction Trades Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Trades (With Aid)

#1

Utah Valley University

Orem, Utah

#1 in overall quality

$9,159 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Construction Trades Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Utah Valley University landed the #1 spot on the list. Utah Valley University is a large school located in Orem, Utah that handed out 50 bachelors’s construction trades degrees in 2019-2020.

UVU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Construction Trades Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UVU is $9,159 for Bachelor’s Degree Construction Trades students with aid.

Full Utah Valley University Construction Trades Report

#2

The University of Texas at San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$13,853 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Construction Trades Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at San Antonio landed the #2 spot on the list. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s construction trades degrees to 66 students in 2019-2020.

UTSA also took the #2 spot in our “Best Construction Trades Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UTSA is $13,853 for Bachelor’s Degree Construction Trades students with aid.

Read full report on Construction Trades at The University of Texas at San Antonio

#3

Pennsylvania College of Technology

Williamsport, Pennsylvania

#3 in overall quality

$25,794 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pennsylvania College of Technology. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Construction Trades Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. Williamsport, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s construction trades degrees to 27 students in 2019-2020.

Penn College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Construction Trades Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Penn College is $25,794 for Bachelor’s Degree Construction Trades students with aid.

Read full report on Construction Trades at Pennsylvania College of Technology

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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