2025 Best Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools

67 Colleges in the United States

6,956 Associate Degrees

Construction Trades isn't the most popular associate program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #22 in popularity out of 38 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.

College Factual looked at 67 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 6,956 associate degrees in construction trades during the <nil> academic year.

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Best Associate Degree Schools List

Choosing a Great Construction Trades School for Your Associate Degree

Best Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools Your choice of construction trades for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

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

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to construction trades students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of construction trades students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for construction trades to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized construction trades related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for construction trades students working on their associate degree.

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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 Construction Trades Associate Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Construction Trades in the United States

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in construction trades. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.