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Most Popular Online Construction Trades Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Southwest Region

2023 Most Popular Online Construction Trades Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Southwest Region

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In 2021-2022, 40,802 construction trades students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #6 most popular in the country.

Today's trade school students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Trade College Search has created the Most Popular Online Construction Trades Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Southwest Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in the Southwest Region to see which ones were the most popular online basic certificate programs for trade school students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.


 

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Online Construction Trades Basic Certificate Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named Southern Careers Institute - San Antonio (NW Loop) the most popular online school in the Southwest Region for construction trades students working on their basic certificate. Located in the city of San Antonio, Southern Careers Institute - San Antonio (NW Loop) is a private for-profit school with a fairly small student population.

About 5% of the students majoring in construction trades at the school are women while 95% are male.

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Out of the 2 online programs at schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mesa Community College landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Mesa, Mesa Community College is a public school with a large student population.

Of the 19 students majoring in construction trades at Mesa Community College, 47% are male and 53% are female.

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Explore the most popular online construction trades colleges for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 368
Texas 1,795
New Mexico 161
Oklahoma 843

Construction Trades Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Electrical & Power Transmission Installers 26,459
Building Management & Inspection 5,269
Carpentry 3,899
Plumbing & Water Supply 2,888
Construction 1,813
Masonry 284
Other Construction 190

Related Major Annual Graduates
Personal & Culinary Services 149,352
Mechanic & Repair Technologies 105,741
Precision Production 55,411
Transportation & Materials Moving 33,306

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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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