<p>One school not mentioned yet is SUNY ESF, which happens to offer programs in Paper Engineering, Construction Management and Landscape Architecture. LA is known as a rigorous 5-year program. CM is not unknown to those familiar with engineering schools. eg, Georgia Tech has a well respected program in CM.</p>
<p>I suppose many might consider SUNY ESF full of unusual majors: Aquatic and Fisheries Science, Bioprocess Engineering, Environmental Resources Engineering, Forest Ecosystem Science, Forest Health, Natural History and Interpretation, Paper Science, and Wildlife Science.</p>
<p>Look at the rising popularity of schools offering co-ops right now. Students are being drawn to an education which will lead to a paying job when they graduate and paid co-ops along the way (over unpaid internships). And if a specialty major lands you a job in something you like, why not?</p>
<p>Also, C-C is a wealth of information. Just because a post is 5+ years old does not mean it is not useful. There are many thoughtful posts on C-C, no need to filter for us what the rest of us might want to discuss. C-C in fact encourages reviving old posts as they place them with similar topics at the bottom of the page.</p>
<p>I work in construction management and have a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering. Construction engineering & management is also commonly a concentration within civil engineering majors at many colleges.</p>
<p>Re. turf management…my BIL majored in this and has had no trouble finding management positions with companies such as John Deere, who is a major vendor for college athletic fields. He’s 30 years into his career and still loves it (and can diagnose what’s killing my lawn in a jif, and recommend organic solutions, so is also a very handy guy to have around!).</p>
<p>The doctor I worked for has a son who majored in Construction Management at Cal Poly SLO back in the late '90s. It’s in the Engineering dept., I believe. He was hired soon after graduation and oversees jobs-large and small within the contracting firm he works for.</p>
<p>Some of these majors have been around for decades…Michigan State has a Packaging majors that they have offered for decades and is highly regarded. There are northern tier colleges that offer degrees in ski area management…the kids that complete them are regarded and sought after much like golf course management and these degrees have been offered for many decades are not simply degrees for kids whose parents want them to have a college degree. Some of these pre-pro/technical tracks have been assimilated into the college setting for a long, long time. Using some of the logic in this thread one could argue that engineering could easily “sit” ouside a traditional college setting because it is technical and pre-professional…blasphemy! Yes this thread is old but it’s a good one to surface now and then.</p>
<p>Construction Management? Sure. University of Cincinnati has a fine program in it, and the D of our friends is now a senior. It’s a co-op program and she has gained valuable work experience (that she enjoyed more than the academic experience!) :)</p>
<p>I heard of this recently from a lady whose son is majoring in this field. I think Clemson offers this and am told one of the easier ways to get into the college (not that it should be that hard anyway, but its what I as told by a friend whose son is going to try to go that route too).</p>
<p>^Needed: a new major called “Unpackaging Science” to design ways to open some of those hard-plastic-sealed things. Perhaps that’s Masters level study. :)</p>
<p>Boy, I wish I’d known about some of these things when I was graduating H.S. Unfortunately, I’m of the generation where women were still being directed into nursing, teaching, etc., with the expectation we’d get married right out of college anyway. But if I’d known what was out there…oh, well, it all worked out. </p>
<p>This was before the internet - naturally - so I was info-starved. My D, however, is looking at some very interesting majors. Thank the Deity of your choice for the 21st century!</p>