2022 Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for an Associate in Illinois

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 Production Tech Schools for an Associate in Illinois” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Industrial Production Technology is the 98th most popular major in the country with 12,687 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, industrial production technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $49,214 and had an average of $18,526 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 631 industrial production technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,750 and $20,581 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 117 industrial production technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,469 and $14,548 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for an Associate in Illinois” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in industrial production technology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent industrial production technology 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 production technology 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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for an Associate in Illinois” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for an Associate in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for an Associate in Illinois.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Industrial Production Technology in Illinois

#1

Lincoln Trail College

Robinson, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$6,771 Average Net Price

$45,128 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lincoln Trail College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for an Associate in Illinois. This small school is located in Robinson, Illinois, and it awarded 14 associates’s industrial production tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Lincoln Trail College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Industrial Production Technology Associate Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. It costs about $6,771 for Illinois Associate Degree Industrial Production Tech students per year to attend Lincoln Trail College.

Read full report on Industrial Production Technology at Lincoln Trail College

#2

Rend Lake College

Ina, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$5,636 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rend Lake College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for an Associate in Illinois. This small school is located in Ina, Illinois, and it awarded 1 associates’s industrial production tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Rend Lake College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Industrial Production Technology Associate Degree Schools in Illinois” list. It costs about $5,636 for illinois associate degree industrial production tech students per year to attend Rend Lake College.

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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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