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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Construction Science and Management (BS)

Location(s): Manhattan Campus


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Accredited by the American Council for Construction Education
300 Decker Drive, Suite 330
Irving, Texas 75062
 Phone: 972-600-8800
www.acce-hq.org

The construction science and management program prepares students to be professional constructors and managers of personnel resources, financial resources, materials, and machines. The curriculum is an engineering based management program designed to produce technically competent managers of construction. Entering students should have a background in mathematics and physics.

The program prepares graduates to execute the designs created by engineers and architects. Graduates may enter fields of general, commercial, residential, heavy and highway, utility, mechanical, or electrical construction. Their education provides the fundamental engineering and management skills necessary for success in any of the above areas.

Constructors work in many settings. For example, as a principal in a small construction firm, a constructor may engage in many of the activities in management, whereas a constructor in a large firm may concentrate exclusively on only one or two of the activities. Most students in the program intend to enter building, heavy/highway, or utility construction fields. Other roles, such as construction education, will normally require an advanced degree and/or professional experience.

Through construction education, students attain a level of construction knowledge that would otherwise require decades of practical experience to develop. With this level of knowledge, graduates typically move rapidly into upper management positions in construction organizations.

Bachelor's degree requirements

Kansas State University Core: 34-36 Credit Hours


K-State Core  is the foundation for an impactful life and career after time at K-State.

The K-State Core framework covers six disciplinary areas: English, Communications, Mathematics & Statistics, Natural & Physical Sciences, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Arts and Humanities. In addition, a seventh area is reserved for institutionally designated use, which K-State is keeping as free electives. In total, the framework takes up 34-35 credit hours of 100 and 200-level coursework. Students who complete their general education elsewhere cannot be required to take additional general education coursework in the disciplinary areas of the framework without permission from KBOR to continue requiring courses in the K-State Core.

General Education: K-State Core  

Construction Science and Management


Math and Science: (3 credit hours)


If not met through K-State Core requirements, PHYS 113 is required.

The curriculum for this major assumes students enter college prepared to take Trigonometry.

Major Requirements: (82 credit hours)


Restricted Electives: (1-4 credit hours)


Professional Electives are to be selected from the current approved Departmental list.

Notes


A letter grade of C or better is required for all prerequisite courses prior to taking subsequent departmental  prefix courses.  A letter grade of C or better is required for all graded departmental prefix courses applied to the degree program.

Social and Behavioral Science Electives are to be selected from the K-State Core topic 5 requirements for General Education.

Arts and Humanities Electives are to be selected from the K-State Core topic 6 requirements for General Education.

Free Electives are to be selected from the K-State Core topic 7 requirements for General Education.

# Professional Electives are to be selected from current, approved Departmental lists.

+ MATH 220 Analytical Geometry and Calculus I may substitute for MATH 150.

Total Hours Required for Graduation: 120


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