2022 Best Value IE Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value IE Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Industrial Engineering is the 86th most popular major in the country with 9,448 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, industrial engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $64,716 and had an average of $22,994 in loans still to pay off.

Across Iowa, there were 233 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,900 and $25,453 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,298 and $45,299 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value IE Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in industrial engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality industrial engineering programs that also have a lower cost than 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 engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value IE Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value IE Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering in Iowa (With Aid)

#1

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$25,948 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$94,408 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value IE Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Iowa State University is a large public school situated in Ames, Iowa. It awarded 27 masters’s IE degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Iowa State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Industrial Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Iowa” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Iowa State are $25,948, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2

University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa

$27,613 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Iowa. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value IE Schools for a Master’s in Iowa For Those Getting Aid. Iowa City, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s IE degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

Iowa also made our “Best Industrial Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Iowa are $27,613, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering in the Plains States Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering (With Aid)

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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