2022 Best Value IE Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value IE Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Kentucky, there were 109 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $67,800 and $18,562 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,847 and $34,311 respectively.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the industrial engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value IE Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky

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

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

#1

University of Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$27,575 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$76,460 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value IE Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Louisville landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Louisville, Kentucky, this large public school awarded 10 degrees to qualified masters’s IE students in 2019-2020.

UofL not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Industrial Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UofL are $27,575, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Industrial Engineering at UofL

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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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