2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

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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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 53 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,779 and $21,585 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IE Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in industrial engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in industrial engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IE Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IE Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

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Colorado State University - Pueblo
Pueblo, Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado State University - Pueblo. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IE Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Colorado State University - Pueblo is a medium-sized school located in Pueblo, Colorado that handed out 6 masters’s IE degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Colorado State University - Pueblo Industrial Engineering Report

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Montana State University
Bozeman, Montana

#23 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Montana State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on IE Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. This fairly large school is located in Bozeman, Montana, and it awarded 5 masters’s IE degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Industrial Engineering at Montana State University

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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.