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2022 Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

9 Ranked Colleges
349 Degrees Awarded
$15,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 the Southwest region, there were 1,137 industrial production technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,929 and $13,058 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 349 industrial production technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 9 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in industrial production technology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great industrial production technology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the industrial production technology program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region.

Top 9 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Production Technology in the Southwest Region

#5 in overall quality

Out of the 9 schools in the Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southwestern Oklahoma State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Southwestern Oklahoma State University is a small school located in Weatherford, Oklahoma that handed out 10 bachelors’s industrial production tech degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree industrial production tech students list, SWOSU has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Industrial Production Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Southwestern Oklahoma State University is $12,891 for southwest region bachelor’s degree industrial production tech students.

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#2

Tarleton State University

Stephenville, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tarleton State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Located in Stephenville, Texas, this fairly large public school handed out 57 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s industrial production tech students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Tarleton, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Industrial Production Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Tarleton is $18,979 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Industrial Production Tech students.

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#3

Lamar University

Beaumont, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lamar University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Lamar University is a fairly large school located in Beaumont, Texas that handed out 49 bachelors’s industrial production tech degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Lamar University, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Industrial Production Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $12,311 for southwest region bachelor’s degree industrial production tech students per year to attend Lamar University.

Full Lamar University Industrial Production Technology Report

#4

Sam Houston State University

Huntsville, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sam Houston State University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Located in Huntsville, Texas, this large public school awarded 10 degrees to qualified bachelors’s industrial production tech students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree industrial production tech students list, SHSU has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Industrial Production Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $14,617 for southwest region bachelor’s degree industrial production tech students per year to attend SHSU.

Full Sam Houston State University Industrial Production Technology Report

Out of the 9 schools in the Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - Commerce landed the #5 spot on the list. Texas A&M Commerce is located in Commerce, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s industrial production tech degrees to qualified students.

Texas A&M Commerce did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #7 on our “Best Industrial Production Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Texas A&M University - Commerce is $13,017 for southwest region bachelor’s degree industrial production tech students.

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Texas A&M University - Kingsville did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Kingsville, Texas, this medium-sized public school awarded 33 degrees to qualified bachelors’s industrial production tech students in 2019-2020.

Texas A&M Kingsville not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #6 on our “Best Industrial Production Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Texas A&M Kingsville is $13,778 for southwest region bachelor’s degree industrial production tech students.

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#8 in overall quality

The University of Texas at Tyler did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #7. This medium-sized school is located in Tyler, Texas, and it awarded 35 bachelors’s industrial production tech degrees in 2019-2020.

UT Tyler not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #8 on our “Best Industrial Production Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $10,974 for southwest region bachelor’s degree industrial production tech students per year to attend UT Tyler.

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#1 in overall quality

With a ranking of #8, Texas A&M University - College Station did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Texas A&M College Station is a large public school situated in College Station, Texas. It awarded 115 bachelors’s industrial production tech degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texas A&M College Station, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Industrial Production Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Texas A&M College Station is $19,057 for southwest region bachelor’s degree industrial production tech students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Texas A&M College Station Industrial Production Technology Report

#9

Texas Southern University

Houston, Texas
#9 in overall quality

Texas Southern University ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Industrial Production Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s industrial production tech degrees in 2019-2020.

TSU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #9 on our “Best Industrial Production Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Texas Southern University is $19,430 for southwest region bachelor’s degree industrial production tech students.

Full Texas Southern University Industrial Production 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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