2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering in Pennsylvania

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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 Pennsylvania, there were 467 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,014 and $24,507 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 98 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,136 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended IE Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in industrial engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in industrial engineering.

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Most Well Attended IE Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania master’s degree ie students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering in Pennsylvania

1

Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

#3 overall quality in Pennsylvania

$78,843 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lehigh University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended IE Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s list. Lehigh University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 39 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%.

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2

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#9 overall quality in Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended IE Major in Pennsylvania for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s IE degrees to 28 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

Read more about Industrial Engineering at University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus

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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.