by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Industrial & Management Engineering is the 133rd most popular major in the country with 6,063 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,134 industrial and management engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 267 industrial and management engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 15 colleges that offer a degree in industrial and management engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their industrial and management engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree industrial management students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bowling Green State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region list. BGSU is a fairly large school located in Bowling Green, Ohio that handed out 66 bachelors’s industrial management degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Michigan Technological University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region. Michigan Technological University is a public institution located in Houghton, Michigan. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Illinois Institute of Technology. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s industrial management degrees to 18 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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Out of the 15 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Michigan University landed the #4 spot on the list. Eastern Michigan is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 30 bachelors’s industrial management degrees to qualified students.
Full Eastern Michigan University Industrial & Management Engineering Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clark State Community College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Clark State Community College is located in Springfield, Ohio and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s industrial management degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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Purdue University - Main Campus did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking, coming in at #6. This large school is located in West Lafayette, Indiana, and it awarded 52 bachelors’s industrial management degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.
University of Southern Indiana came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. This medium-sized school is located in Evansville, Indiana, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s industrial management degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Purdue University Northwest came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Hammond, Indiana is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s industrial management degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.
Full Purdue Northwest Industrial & Management Engineering Report
Miami University - Oxford landed the #9 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Miami University - Oxford is a fairly large public school situated in Oxford, Ohio. It awarded 17 bachelors’s industrial management degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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With a ranking of #10, University of Cincinnati - Main Campus did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region list. UC is a public institution located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The school has a large population, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% 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%.
Western Michigan University ranked #11 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region list. WMU is a fairly large public school situated in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It awarded 12 bachelors’s industrial management degrees in 2020-2021.
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With a ranking of #12, Valparaiso University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Valparaiso, Indiana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s industrial management degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Trine University-Regional/Non-Traditional Campuses landed the #13 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Trine is a small school located in Fort Wayne, Indiana that handed out 35 bachelors’s industrial management degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.8% 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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Full Trine University-Regional/Non-Traditional Campuses Industrial & Management Engineering Report
Trine University ranked #13 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This small school is located in Angola, Indiana, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s industrial management degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.8% 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%.
Read more about Industrial & Management Engineering at Trine
University of Illinois at Chicago ranked #13 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Management Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s industrial management students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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