2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General IE Major in the Plains States Region
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Degrees Awarded
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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General IE Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Industrial Engineering is the 95th most popular major in the country with 8,087 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Plains States region, there were 637 general industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 102 general industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General IE Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 9 colleges that offer a degree in general industrial engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in general industrial engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General IE Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree general ie students.
Top 9 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Industrial Engineering in the Plains States Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wichita State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General IE Major in the Plains States Region. Wichita State University is a fairly large school located in Wichita, Kansas that handed out 40 masters’s general ie degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% 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 General Industrial Engineering at WSU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Missouri. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General IE Major in the Plains States Region list. University of Central Missouri is a fairly large public school situated in Warrensburg, Missouri. It awarded 14 masters’s general ie degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Industrial Engineering at UCM
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General IE Major in the Plains States Region list. Iowa State University is a large school located in Ames, Iowa that handed out 10 masters’s general ie degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General IE Major in the Plains States Region. UMN Twin Cities is a large school located in Minneapolis, Minnesota that handed out 17 masters’s general ie degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.
Read more about General Industrial Engineering at UMN Twin Cities
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Iowa. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General IE Major in the Plains States Region list. Iowa is a large public school situated in Iowa City, Iowa. It awarded 9 masters’s general ie degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about General Industrial Engineering at University of Iowa
University of Missouri - Columbia came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General IE Major in the Plains States Region ranking. Located in Columbia, Missouri, this large public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s general ie students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on General Industrial Engineering at University of Missouri - Columbia
With a ranking of #7, Kansas State University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General IE Major in the Plains States Region list. Manhattan, Kansas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s general ie degrees to 6 students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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 General Industrial Engineering at Kansas State University
With a ranking of #8, University of Nebraska - Lincoln did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General IE Major in the Plains States Region list. University of Nebraska - Lincoln is a public institution located in Lincoln, Nebraska. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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 General Industrial Engineering at University of Nebraska - Lincoln
North Dakota State University - Main Campus ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General IE Major in the Plains States Region list. Fargo, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s general ie degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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
- *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.
