<p>I am a senior in HS and looking to major in Construction Management in college. What (if any) accreditations should colleges have for it to be a good choice? Also what are some good schools for this major?</p>
<p>If you think you can make it through an engineering curriculum, I highly recommend majoring in civil engineering instead. Both routes can take you to construction management, but civil engineering gives you more of an understanding of the structure you’re building. Some schools are lighter in theory than others. </p>
<p>If you do choose to go the construction management route, you should take a look at where their graduates go to after college. Do they place well? Do many construction management firms recruit there? I’m not personally aware of any accreditations for construction management programs. However, there is a Construction Management Association of America (cmaanet.org) around and some schools have student chapters. Keep an eye out for this, but it’s not nearly as important as graduate placement.</p>
<p>University of Nebraska at Lincoln is a top ranked school for Architectural Engineeering. It also has an excellent CM program that attracts recruiters from national and international companies. like the other guy said, you gave a better shot at being a CM with an Engineering background than management. You can with a CM degree but its highly competitive.</p>
<p>The orogram is housed at University of Nebraska at Omaha as well as Lincoln. The Omaha campus has a pretty sick facility called the Peter Kiewit Institute.</p>
<p>My son is about to graduate from the BCM program at Purdue. It’s rigorous and the students get great support in looking for employment, recruiters come to campus and there are interesting concentrations like demolition and disaster reconstruction (I think Purdue may have the only concentration in this). He begins his last year of school with a job offer in his field. We have been very satisfied with the education, and in the Midwest at least, architect and engineer friends have told us that Purdue is their source for hiring constructiion managers.</p>