2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IE Major in Massachusetts

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IE Major in Massachusetts” 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 Massachusetts, there were 284 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,558 and $26,167 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $82,580 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IE Major in Massachusetts” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in industrial engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in industrial engineering.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IE Major in Massachusetts

The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts doctor’s degree ie students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering in Massachusetts

1

Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts

#11 overall quality in Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeastern University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IE Major in Massachusetts list. Northeastern is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 12 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

Read full report on Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University

2

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

#15 overall quality in Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on IE Major in Massachusetts list. This large school is located in Amherst, Massachusetts, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s IE degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.

Read full report on Industrial Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering in the New England Region
• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering

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.