2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering Technology in the Great Lakes Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Construction Engineering Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Construction Engineering Technology is the 183rd most popular major in the country with 4,330 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 458 construction engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 construction engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Construction Engineering Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in construction engineering technology/technician. To top this list, a school must have a successful construction engineering technology/technician program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Construction Engineering Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Construction Engineering Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering Technology in the Great Lakes Region

1

Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

#14 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Construction Engineering Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Michigan State is a large school located in East Lansing, Michigan that handed out 8 masters’s construction engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Michigan State Construction Engineering Technology Report

2

Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Michigan University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Construction Engineering Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s list. Located in Ypsilanti, Michigan, this fairly large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s construction engineering tech students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Construction Engineering Technology at Eastern Michigan

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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