Construction Management at University of Southern Mississippi

If you plan to study construction management, take a look at what University of Southern Mississippi has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Southern Miss is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and approximately 14,606 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Construction Management section at the bottom of this page.

Southern Miss Construction Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management

Southern Miss Construction Management Rankings

The construction management major at Southern Miss is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Construction Management. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Construction Management Student Demographics at Southern Miss

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the construction management majors at University of Southern Mississippi.

Southern Miss Construction Management Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 80% of construction management bachelor's degrees went to men and 20% went to women. The typical construction management bachelor's degree program is made up of only 14% women. So female students are more repesented at Southern Miss since its program graduates 6% more women than average.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in construction management at Southern Miss are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 4% more racial-ethnic minorities in its construction management bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Southern Mississippi with a bachelor's in construction management.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	43
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within Construction Management

Construction Management majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Southern Mississippi. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded

Related Majors

• Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing
• International Business
• Hospitality Management
• Business/Managerial Economics
• Finance & Financial Management

Careers That Construction Management Grads May Go Into

A degree in construction management can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MS, the home state for University of Southern Mississippi.

Occupation	Jobs in MS	Average Salary in MS
Construction Managers	1,130	$79,380

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Dudemanfellabra under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.