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2023 Best Value Construction Trades Bachelor's Degree Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$21,263 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$64,889 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Construction Trades Bachelor's Degree School for You

Construction Trades is the #35 most popular major in the country with 35,794 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Construction Trades Bachelor's Degree Schools ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's degree programs for construction trades students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Construction Trades Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the United States

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Construction Trades Bachelor's Degree Colleges.

Best Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Construction Trades

Our analysis found Utah Valley University to be the best value school for construction trades students who want to pursue a bachelor’s degree in the United States. Located in the city of Orem, UVU is a public school with a very large student population.

UVU undergraduate students pay an average of $17,092 in tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at The University of Texas at San Antonio helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value construction trades schools in the United States. UTSA is a very large public school located in the city of San Antonio.

UTSA undergraduate students pay an average of $21,528 in tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Pennsylvania College of Technology helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value construction trades schools in the United States. Penn College is a small public school located in the small city of Williamsport.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Penn College are $25,170 a year.

Full Construction Trades at Pennsylvania College of Technology Report

Construction Trades by Region

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Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

Construction Trades Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Electrical & Power Transmission Installers 23,527
Building Management & Inspection 4,511
Carpentry 3,273
Plumbing & Water Supply 2,617
Construction 1,435
Masonry 274
Other Construction 157

Related Major Annual Graduates
Personal & Culinary Services 130,328
Mechanic & Repair Technologies 96,336
Precision Production 52,913
Transportation & Materials Moving 29,084

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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