2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 928 industrial technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 138 industrial technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree industrial tech students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Technology in the Great Lakes Region

1

Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Illinois University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region list. EIU is a medium-sized school located in Charleston, Illinois that handed out 79 masters’s industrial tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Full EIU Industrial Technology Report

2

Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois

Top 20% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Illinois State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Illinois State University is a large school located in Normal, Illinois that handed out 59 masters’s industrial tech degrees 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 full report on Industrial Technology at Illinois State University

3

Indiana State University
Terre Haute, Indiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Indiana State is located in Terre Haute, Indiana and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 masters’s industrial tech degrees to qualified students.

Full Indiana State Industrial Technology Report

• Most Focused Master’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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