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2026 Best Value Industrial Engineering Associate’s Degree Schools

[Industrial Engineering](/majors/engineering/ie-industrial-engineering/) degree programs vary widely in price and payoff across the country. The best values balance affordable tuition against strong post-graduation earnings.

To produce this 2026 ranking, College Factual evaluated 157 schools on the balance of cost and outcomes for industrial engineering students.

What’s on this page:

• Best Value Associate’s Degree Industrial Engineering Schools
• Other Degree Levels

Insufficient Data for the United States

We do not have adequate info to produce a best-value ranking of industrial engineering schools in the United States yet.

Other Industrial Engineering Degree Levels

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Notes and References

This list is compiled by College Factual (MF_RANKING_2025), 2026 edition. The methodology weighs the cost of a degree against the earnings graduates go on to achieve, drawn primarily from the U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS and College Scorecard).

Ranking method: College Major Best Value · 157 schools evaluated.

*Averages shown above reflect the top 1 ranked schools only.

• 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.