If you plan on getting your associate degree in construction engineering technology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #108 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for construction engineering technology students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 39 associate degrees in construction engineering technology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Construction Engineering Technology School for Your Associate Degree
The construction engineering tech associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
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.
Average Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of associate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their associate degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 engineering technology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of construction engineering technology 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 engineering technology 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 engineering technology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for construction engineering technology students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Construction Engineering Technology Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Construction Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Construction Engineering Technology in the Plains States Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in construction engineering technology.
Top Plains States Region Schools for an Associate in Construction Engineering Tech
It is hard to beat Lake Area Technical Institute if you wish to pursue an associate degree in construction engineering technology. LATI is a small public school located in the remote town of Watertown.
After graduating, construction engineering tech associate recipients usually make an average of $48,971 in the first five years of their career.
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).