by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended IE Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that 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 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.
This year’s “Most Well Attended IE Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in industrial engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful industrial engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Well Attended IE Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region master’s degree ie students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado State University - Pueblo. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended IE Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s. Located in Pueblo, Colorado, this medium-sized public school handed out 6 degrees to qualified masters’s IE students in 2020-2021.
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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 Most Well Attended IE Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s. 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%.
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