2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering in Alabama

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 IE Schools for a Master’s in Alabama” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 9,448 people earned their degree in industrial engineering, making the major the 86th most popular in the United States. 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 Alabama, there were 250 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,500 and $25,750 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 47 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,487 and $41,507 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great industrial engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the 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 IE Schools for a Master’s in Alabama

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value IE Schools for a Master’s in Alabama.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering in Alabama

#1

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$31,956 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$83,546 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auburn University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value IE Schools for a Master’s in Alabama list. This large school is located in Auburn, Alabama, and it awarded 47 masters’s IE degrees in 2019-2020.

Auburn also made our “Best Industrial Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Alabama” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Auburn University are $31,956, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Auburn Industrial Engineering 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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