2022 Best Value General IE Schools for an Associate

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 General IE Schools for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 9,448 people earned their degree in general industrial engineering, making the major the 86th most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 37 general industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value General IE Schools for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general industrial engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general industrial engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general industrial engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value General IE Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General IE Schools for an Associate.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Industrial Engineering

#1

Sinclair Community College

Dayton, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$4,208 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value General IE Schools for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Sinclair Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Dayton, Ohio, this fairly large public school handed out 3 degrees to qualified associates’s general IE students in 2019-2020.

Sinclair Community College also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Industrial Engineering Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $4,208 for associate degree general ie students per year to attend Sinclair Community College.

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#2

Indiana Institute of Technology - College of Professional Studies

Fort-Wayne, Indiana

#2 in overall quality

$16,269 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value General IE Schools for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana Institute of Technology - College of Professional Studies landed the #2 spot on the list. Indiana Institute of Technology - College of Professional Studies is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Fort-Wayne, Indiana. It awarded 11 associates’s general IE degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our associate degree general ie students list, Indiana Tech - CPS has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best General Industrial Engineering Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Indiana Tech - CPS is $16,269 for Associate Degree General IE students.

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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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