2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial & Management Engineering in North Carolina

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across North Carolina, there were 229 industrial and management engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 200 industrial and management engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,088 and $45,388 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in industrial and management engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality industrial and management engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the industrial and management engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The industrial management school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina”.

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Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial & Management Engineering in North Carolina

#1

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Charlotte, North Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$21,055 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Charlotte. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina list. This large school is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and it awarded 18 masters’s industrial management degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNC Charlotte, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Industrial & Management Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UNC Charlotte are $21,055, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full UNC Charlotte Industrial & Management Engineering Report

#2

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$59,140 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Industrial Management Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina list. This fairly large school is located in Durham, North Carolina, and it awarded 175 masters’s industrial management degrees in 2019-2020.

Duke did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Industrial & Management Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Duke are $59,140, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Industrial & Management Engineering at Duke University

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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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