2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Technology in the Great Lakes Region

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 “Best Value Industrial Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Industrial Technology is the 192nd most popular major in the country with 4,673 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,021 industrial technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 131 industrial technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Industrial Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the industrial technology/technician program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

More Ways to Rank Industrial Technology Schools

The industrial tech 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 Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region”.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Industrial Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Industrial Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Technology in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Illinois State University

Normal, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$11,069 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Illinois State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Industrial Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Normal, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s industrial tech degrees to 54 students in 2019-2020.

Illinois State also made our “Best Industrial Technology Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Illinois State University are $11,069, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Industrial Technology at Illinois State University

#2

Eastern Illinois University

Charleston, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$20,761 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Industrial Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Illinois University landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Charleston, Illinois, and it awarded 77 masters’s industrial tech degrees in 2019-2020.

EIU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Industrial Technology Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Eastern Illinois University are $20,761.

Full Eastern Illinois University Industrial Technology Report

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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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