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2022 Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

7 Ranked Colleges
273 Degrees Awarded
$14,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Bachelor's in the Plains States Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Industrial & Management Engineering is the 147th most popular major in the country with 5,633 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Plains States region, there were 693 industrial and management engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 273 industrial and management engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 7 colleges that offer a degree in industrial and management engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent industrial and management engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the industrial and management engineering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region.

Top 7 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial & Management Engineering in the Plains States Region

#1

Bemidji State University

Bemidji, Minnesota
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bemidji State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. Bemidji State University is a small school located in Bemidji, Minnesota that handed out 1 bachelors’s industrial management degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree industrial management students list, Bemidji State University has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Industrial & Management Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $15,868 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Industrial Management students per year to attend Bemidji State University.

Full Bemidji State University Industrial & Management Engineering Report

#2

South Dakota State University

Brookings, South Dakota
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Brookings, South Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s industrial management degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at South Dakota State, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Industrial & Management Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend South Dakota State is $19,252 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Industrial Management students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full South Dakota State Industrial & Management Engineering Report

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. Iowa State is a public institution located in Ames, Iowa. The school has a large population, and it awarded 106 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Iowa State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Industrial & Management Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Iowa State is $15,496 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Industrial Management students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 3.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Iowa State Industrial & Management Engineering Report

#4

Pittsburg State University

Pittsburg, Kansas
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pittsburg State University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. Located in Pittsburg, Kansas, this medium-sized public school awarded 14 degrees to qualified bachelors’s industrial management students in 2019-2020.

Pitt State also took the #3 spot in our “Best Industrial & Management Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Pitt State is $14,436 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Industrial Management students.

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#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Missouri University of Science and Technology. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. Missouri University of Science and Technology is located in Rolla, Missouri and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 78 bachelors’s industrial management degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Missouri University of Science and Technology, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Industrial & Management Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Missouri University of Science and Technology is $14,262 for plains states region bachelor’s degree industrial management students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Industrial & Management Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology

#6 in overall quality

Missouri State University - Springfield landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region ranking. Springfield, Missouri is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s industrial management degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

Missouri State also made our “Best Industrial & Management Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #6. The estimated yearly cost for Missouri State is $16,725 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Industrial Management students.

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#7

Grantham University

Lenexa, Kansas
#7 in overall quality

Grantham University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. Grantham University is a private for-profit institution located in Lenexa, Kansas. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Grantham University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #7 on our “Best Industrial & Management Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Grantham University is $8,409 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Industrial Management students.

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Notes and References

References

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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