2023 Most Well Attended IE Major in Connecticut for a Master’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended IE Major in Connecticut for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 9,072 people earned their degree in industrial engineering, making the major the 87th most popular in the United States. 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 Connecticut, there were 104 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,315 and $20,763 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 45 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,328 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended IE Major in Connecticut for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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 Connecticut for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended IE Major in Connecticut for a Master’s”.

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

1

University of New Haven
West Haven, Connecticut

#8 overall quality in Connecticut

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended IE Major in Connecticut for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Haven landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in West Haven, Connecticut, and it awarded 37 masters’s IE degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Industrial Engineering at University of New Haven

2

Fairfield University
Fairfield, Connecticut

#3 overall quality in Connecticut

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended IE Major in Connecticut for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Fairfield University landed the #2 spot on the list. Fairfield U is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Fairfield, Connecticut. It awarded 8 masters’s IE degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Fairfield University 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.