2022 Best Value Industrial Tech Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Industrial Tech Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 4,673 people earned their degree in industrial technology/technician, making the major the 192nd most popular in the United States.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 industrial technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,680 and $116,043 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Industrial Tech Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in industrial technology/technician. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent industrial technology/technician programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the industrial technology/technician program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Industrial Tech Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Industrial Tech Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Technology (Income $0-$30k)

#1

University of Northern Iowa

Cedar Falls, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$22,648 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Northern Iowa. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Industrial Tech Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, this medium-sized public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s industrial tech students in 2019-2020.

UNI did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Industrial Technology Doctor’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Northern Iowa are $22,648, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2

Indiana State University

Terre Haute, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$15,346 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Industrial Tech Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Terre Haute, Indiana, and it awarded 9 doctorate’s industrial tech degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our doctor’s degree industrial tech students whose families make $0-$30k list, Indiana State has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Industrial Technology Doctor’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Indiana State are $15,346.

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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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