re: What kind of money can you expect with a LSU Construction Management Degree?

With that degree you will be able to do anything from working for a smaller local contractor and make 80k a year or as a VP of a larger company making $2-500K. All depends on the path you choose and the people you know. As far as industrial construction or working for the plants, they really would prefer an engineering degree, specifically on the owner side. With a CM degree you can go work for Turner, Greenberry, Triad, MMR, Performance or or someone like that and start as an estimator and fight every soul around to make it to the top, but that's a long journey and their hierarchy is already built for the most part. If you want to go work for a Big EPC like Bechtel, Fluor, KBR, etc than they'll want engineering as well, even for low level office jobs.

When you make it out of school and into the workforce you will quickly realize how many knuckleheads have engineering degrees and you will really wonder why you undersold yourself to a CM Degree.


If you have the brain to do the math in economics, than just transfer over to Engineering.