Industrial Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus

If you are interested in studying industrial engineering, you may want to check out the program at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Georgia Tech is located in Atlanta, Georgia and approximately 39,771 students attend the school each year. Of the 3,879 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus in 2021, 338 of them were industrial engineering majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Industrial Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

Georgia Tech Industrial Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IE
• Master’s Degree in IE
• Doctorate Degree in IE

Georgia Tech Industrial Engineering Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks IE programs across the country. The following shows how Georgia Tech performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The IE major at Georgia Tech is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Industrial Engineering. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Industrial Engineering Schools	1
Best Industrial Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	4
Best Value Industrial Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools	9
Best Value Industrial Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	22
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Best Value Industrial Engineering Schools	23

In 2021, 71 students received their master’s degree in IE from Georgia Tech. This makes it the #10 most popular school for IE master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 21 students who received their doctoral degrees in IE, making the school the #2 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Earnings of Georgia Tech IE Graduates

The median salary of IE students who receive their bachelor's degree at Georgia Tech is $74,354. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 11% higher than the national average of $66,838 for all IE bachelor's degree recipients.

IE Student Demographics at Georgia Tech

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IE majors at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus.

Georgia Tech Industrial Engineering Bachelor’s Program

Of the 338 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2020-2021, 56% were men and 44% were women. The typical IE bachelor's degree program is made up of only 32% women. So female students are more repesented at Georgia Tech since its program graduates 12% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% more racial-ethnic minorities in its IE bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus with a bachelor's in IE.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	86
Black or African American	12
Hispanic or Latino	21
White	149
International Students	47
Other Races/Ethnicities	23

Georgia Tech Industrial Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 71 students who graduated with a master’s in IE from Georgia Tech in 2021, 68% were men and 32% were women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus with a master's in IE.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	5
International Students	56
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Georgia Tech also has a doctoral program available in IE. In 2021, 21 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Engineering Mechanics
• Robotics Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Nuclear Engineering
• Systems Engineering

Careers That IE Grads May Go Into

A degree in IE can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for GA, the home state for Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Industrial Engineers	7,260	$86,220
Industrial Production Managers	4,990	$104,120
Architectural and Engineering Managers	4,740	$142,240
Engineering Professors	360	$96,180

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Disavian under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.