You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in construction trades. It is ranked #34 out of 38 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Construction Trades Schools in Texas ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 2,113 degrees in construction trades annually.
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 Schools in Texas list to help you make the college decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the construction trades degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's hard to beat Texas State Technical College if you wish to pursue a degree in construction trades. TSTC is a large public college located in the midsize city of Waco.
Construction Trades degree recipients from Texas State Technical College receive an earnings boost of about $26,356 above the typical income of construction trades majors.
It's difficult to beat The University of Texas at San Antonio if you want to pursue a degree in construction trades. UTSA is a very large public university located in the city of San Antonio.
Construction Trades degree recipients from The University of Texas at San Antonio earn a boost of about $29,216 above the typical income of construction trades majors.
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).
