Construction Management Grads See 98.64% Job Placement Rate

98.64% of construction management graduates land a job within a year of attaining their bachelor’s degree. This is the second highest employability rate of all degrees awarded between 2014 and 2020. Popular majors like business administration, psychology and media studies appear to be oversubscribed, ranking outside the top 50 most employable fields of study.

This is according to a new study from Asana, a leading work management platform, which analyzed the latest College Scorecard data release from the U.S. Department of Education. The researchers shortlisted 592 currently active higher education institutions, which predominantly award bachelor’s degrees and whose Carnegie size and setting classification is between nine and 17. This yielded 32,612 bachelor’s programs, grouped under 304 fields of study, awarded between 2014 and 2020. The research focuses on fields of study with at least 500 graduates of whom 100 or more entered the workforce within a year of completion.

Top 20 Most Employable Degrees in the U.S.

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing is the most employable field of study in the U.S., with 98.91% of graduates finding a job in less than a year since completing the program.

The U.S. Department of Education data pool includes at least 122,282 nursing graduates who obtained their degree between 2014 and 2020. This represents 7.83% of all U.S. graduate records shared publicly – a significant proportion marginally surpassed by Business Administration, Management and Operations bachelor’s degree holders, who account for 7.96% of all graduates, but whose immediate employability ranked 66th as around one in 23 (4.3%) fails to secure a job within a year.

Construction Management is the second most employable degree in the United States with 98.64% of graduates entering the workforce within 12 months of completion. Notably, however, there are far fewer available records for this field compared to nursing degrees. With 2,213 publicly known graduates successfully attaining their degrees between 2014 and 2020, Construction Management ranks as the 102nd most prolific bachelor’s program out of the 304 analyzed.

Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians ranked third for immediate employability. 98.5% of graduates in this field find a job in less than a year after successfully completing their bachelor’s degrees between 2014 and 2020. The U.S. Department of Education counts at least 1,470 graduates in this period.

With only 0.008% working graduates behind, Dental Support Services and Allied Professions ranked as the fourth most employable field of study. U.S. colleges produced 1,928 graduates within seven years up until and including 2020. 1,899 of them found work within a year.

The next most employable degrees are Special Education and Teaching, Systems Engineering, Fire Protection and Civil Engineering. At least 98% of graduates in these fields secured a job less than 12 months after program completion.

Oversubscribed degrees

Besides Business Administration, Management and Operations, four other popular majors struggled to qualify for the top 50 most employable degrees, at least in the seven years leading up to the pandemic. Psychology graduates were the third most numerous in that period, counting at least 83,238. This means around one in 19 college graduates studied Psychology. However, 5,098 of them, or at least one in 16, failed to secure a job within a year of obtaining their degree.

One in nearly 30 bachelor’s degrees obtained between 2014 and 2020 was in Communication and Media Studies. It was the fourth most popular degree at the time, held by 53,248 alumni. 4% of them struggled to land a job within a year after completing the program.

Criminal Justice and Corrections is the fifth most popular bachelor’s degree, with at least 51,116 known graduates. However, one in 23 was still a jobseeker a year from attaining their diploma.

Biology is the sixth most prolific field of study, producing at least 50,342 graduates between 2014 and 2020. However, only 92.5% found a job in the first 12 months since obtaining their degrees.

“On average, a bachelor’s degree seems to guarantee a job for 94.3% of graduates within a year of completion,” said a spokesperson for Asana. “This was before the pandemic, and it was lucky that nursing programs were already the second most popular field of study at such a crucial time.”

“Besides employability, going to college after high school can add 84% to your income. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests workers aged at least 25 with a bachelor’s degree or higher earned $1,754 a week on average in the first quarter of 2025, compared to $953 for high school graduates who do not attend college.”

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