Bachelor’s degree · earnings 4 years after completing
Highest-Paying Colleges for Construction Engineering Technology (Bachelor's)
Graduates who complete a bachelor's degree in Construction Engineering Technology earn a median of $93,843 four years after finishing, and the middle half earn between $77,403 and $111,740. We rank the 33 U.S. colleges whose Construction Engineering Technology programs have at least 25 graduates in the Scorecard earnings sample, 2,362 graduates in all. That puts Construction Engineering Technology at #9 of 131 bachelor's degree fields we rank, among the best-paid fields.
University of Florida, in Florida, leads at $109,139, 17% above the median ranked school ($93,195). Most schools are tightly bunched: the middle half of ranked schools earn between $88,881 and $96,378, and the lowest earns $64,359, so outside the leaders the choice of school moves earnings less than the choice of major. 16 of the 33 ranked schools (48%) match or beat the national median.
Public universities dominate the top 20: 20 public, 0 private nonprofit and 0 for-profit. Across all ranked schools, 100% are public. Texas places 5 schools in the top 20, ahead of California (3).
The top 20 schools cost about the same as the rest of the list: a median net price of $15,351 a year, against $14,967 across all 33 ranked schools. Their graduates who borrowed carry a median of $21,500 in federal loans, about 22% of one year of earnings. Measured against a typical high-school graduate in the same state, the median top-20 school recovers its net cost in about 1.0 years.
Showing the top 33 of 33 ranked schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table. † = fewer than 40 graduates in the earnings sample.
| 1 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL Public · 4-year | $109,139 | 74 | $14,869 | $6,541 | 0.3 |
| 2 | Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ Public · 4-year | $107,880 | 34 † | $20,873 | $14,967 | 0.8 |
| 3 | California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Pomona, CA Public · 4-year | $105,812 | 58 | $16,500 | $11,531 | 0.7 |
| 4 | California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA Public · 4-year | $103,125 | 59 | $18,000 | $10,440 | 0.6 |
| 5 | Texas A&M University-College Station College Station, TX Public · 4-year | $101,540 | 324 | $19,000 | $21,315 | 1.3 |
| 6 | Texas State University San Marcos, TX Public · 4-year | $100,352 | 131 | $22,000 | $16,805 | 1.0 |
| 7 | Florida International University Miami, FL Public · 4-year | $99,471 | 56 | $21,000 | $9,288 | 0.6 |
| 8 | University of Houston Houston, TX Public · 4-year | $97,201 | 171 | $21,500 | $14,276 | 0.9 |
| 9 | CUNY New York City College of Technology Brooklyn, NY Public · 4-year | $96,378 | 57 | — | $5,127 | 0.3 |
| 10 | Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA Public · 4-year | $95,844 | 118 | $24,225 | $15,267 | 1.0 |
| 11 | Michigan State University East Lansing, MI Public · 4-year | $95,387 | 70 | $25,250 | $19,680 | 1.3 |
| 12 | California State University-Fresno Fresno, CA Public · 4-year | $95,072 | 26 † | $13,750 | $7,000 | 0.5 |
| 13 | North Dakota State University-Main Campus Fargo, ND Public · 4-year | $95,019 | 72 | $27,000 | $15,543 | 1.1 |
| 14 | Colorado State University-Fort Collins Fort Collins, CO Public · 4-year | $94,921 | 179 | $23,500 | $21,279 | 1.6 |
| 15 | University of North Florida Jacksonville, FL Public · 4-year | $94,692 | 42 | $22,479 | $10,154 | 0.7 |
| 16 | Sam Houston State University Huntsville, TX Public · 4-year | $93,904 | 76 | $19,855 | $16,404 | 1.1 |
| 17 | South Dakota State University Brookings, SD Public · 4-year | $93,195 | 42 | $21,185 | $19,841 | 1.4 |
| 18 | University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC Public · 4-year | $92,567 | 51 | $26,500 | $15,435 | 1.1 |
| 19 | University of North Texas Denton, TX Public · 4-year | $92,524 | 46 | $26,000 | $15,649 | 1.1 |
| 20 | Kansas State University Manhattan, KS Public · 4-year | $91,809 | 98 | $27,000 | $19,406 | 1.4 |
| 21 | Farmingdale State College Farmingdale, NY Public · 4-year | $89,913 | 49 | $15,000 | $10,867 | 0.8 |
| 22 | University of Maine Orono, ME Public · 4-year | $89,454 | 60 | $26,411 | $17,510 | 1.4 |
| 23 | Oklahoma State University-Main Campus Stillwater, OK Public · 4-year | $89,342 | 55 | $24,525 | $17,447 | 1.3 |
| 24 | Montana State University Bozeman, MT Public · 4-year | $89,002 | 49 | $25,185 | $22,499 | 1.6 |
| 25 | Northern Michigan University Marquette, MI Public · 4-year | $88,881 | 26 † | — | $14,085 | 1.0 |
| 26 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE Public · 4-year | $88,628 | 67 | $22,250 | $17,747 | 1.4 |
| 27 | University of Akron Main Campus Akron, OH Public · 4-year | $85,391 | 34 † | $25,000 | $13,946 | 1.1 |
| 28 | University of Toledo Toledo, OH Public · 4-year | $84,736 | 37 † | $24,225 | $17,249 | 1.4 |
| 29 | Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY Public · 4-year | $84,057 | 39 † | $26,502 | $10,990 | 0.9 |
| 30 | Western Carolina University Cullowhee, NC Public · 4-year | $83,954 | 50 | $26,000 | $13,315 | 1.1 |
| 31 | Louisiana Tech University Ruston, LA Public · 4-year | $77,558 | 60 | $21,500 | $11,864 | 1.1 |
| 32 | Purdue University Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, IN Public · 4-year | $72,564 | 25 † | $21,784 | $13,171 | 1.5 |
| 33 | Prairie View A & M University Prairie View, TX Public · 4-year | $64,359 | 27 † | $31,000 | $13,570 | 1.8 |
How this ranking is built
A school appears here only if it meets every condition below.
- Which programs count
- Main campuses only, one entry per institution. Scorecard reports program outcomes for the whole six-digit federal ID (OPEID6), so branch campuses share their parent’s numbers and are not listed twice.
- Only bachelor's degree programs in Construction Engineering Technology (CIP 1510, the four-digit code Scorecard uses to group related programs).
- At least 25 graduates in the earnings sample. Smaller samples are left out because their medians swing too much and the counts carry a little privacy noise.
- A major gets a page only when at least 20 schools qualify. This one has 33.
- Ranked by median earnings 4 years after completing, highest first. Ties go to the larger sample, then to the school name.
- Schools missing earnings or a sample size are left out rather than estimated.
- What the numbers mean
- Earnings: median annual earnings of graduates four years after completing. The cohort completed in academic years 2017-18 and 2018-19 and was measured in calendar years 2022 and 2023, in 2024 dollars.
- Who is counted: graduates who received federal student aid (Title IV grants or loans), and only those who were working and not enrolled in more school that year. Graduates without federal aid, those who went on to further study and those with no earnings are not in the median.
- Scorecard adds privacy noise to counts and medians and hides values it cannot protect, so a gap of a few percent between two schools is not meaningful.
- Graduates: the number of graduates in that earnings sample. A † marks fewer than 40, where the figure is less precise.
- Debt: median federal loan debt (Stafford and Grad PLUS loans disbursed at that school) of graduates who borrowed, from the 2018-19 and 2019-20 completers. Parent PLUS and private loans are not included.
- Net price: average yearly cost after grants and scholarships for the whole institution, not this major, academic year 2023-24.
- Payback: 4 years of net price divided by how much these earnings exceed a high-school graduate’s in the school’s state. Shown only when that gap is at least $2,000, the same formula as the rest of the site.
- Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard field-of-study data, June 2026 release.
Top states for Construction Engineering Technology earnings
Median of the school medians for states with at least 3 ranked schools. The best school in each state is shown.
| State | Median earnings | Ranked schools | Top school |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | $103,125 | 3 | California State Polytechnic University-Pomona |
| Florida | $99,471 | 3 | University of Florida |
| Texas | $95,553 | 6 | Texas A&M University-College Station |
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