2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in Illinois

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Industrial Technology is the 217th most popular major in the country with 4,540 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Illinois, there were 281 industrial technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 107 industrial technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in Illinois” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in industrial technology/technician. That schools that top this list have a program in industrial technology/technician in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in Illinois”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Technology in Illinois

1

Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in Illinois. Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a fairly large public school situated in Carbondale, Illinois. It awarded 84 bachelors’s industrial tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Industrial Technology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

2

Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois

#6 overall quality in Illinois

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Illinois State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Normal, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s industrial tech degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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 Technology at Illinois State University

3

Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, Illinois

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Illinois University landed the #3 spot on the list. EIU is a medium-sized school located in Charleston, Illinois that handed out 2 bachelors’s industrial tech degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Technology in the Great Lakes Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Technology

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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