2025 Best Construction Trades Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
1College in the Rocky Mountains Region
1,429Construction Trades Degrees Awarded
$41,986Avg Early-Career Salary
Construction Trades degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #34 out of the 38 majors we look at each year. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
There was only one school in the Rocky Mountains Region to review for the 2025 Best Construction Trades Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Construction Trades Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Construction Trades in the Rocky Mountains Region
The schools below may not offer all types of construction trades degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Construction Trades
It is hard to beat Utah Valley University if you wish to pursue a degree in construction trades. Located in the city of Orem, UVU is a public university with a very large student population.
Degree recipients from the construction trades program at Utah Valley University make $32,541 above the standard graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
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).
