2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering in the New England Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IE Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Industrial Engineering is the 87th most popular major in the country with 9,072 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, industrial engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,960 and had an average of $24,268 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 417 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $70,757 and $22,790 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 5 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,618 and $16,599 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IE Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in industrial engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in industrial engineering.

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The ie school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IE Major in the New England Region”.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IE Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region associate degree ie students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering in the New England Region

1

Manchester Community College
Manchester, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Manchester Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IE Major in the New England Region. This small school is located in Manchester, Connecticut, and it awarded 4 associates’s IE degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Industrial Engineering at Manchester Community College

2

Community College of Rhode Island
Warwick, Rhode Island

Top 25% overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Community College of Rhode Island. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on IE Major in the New England Region list. This fairly large school is located in Warwick, Rhode Island, and it awarded 1 associates’s IE degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Community College of Rhode Island 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

• *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.