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2023 Best Value Industrial Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Iowa

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$9,788 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$66,502 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Industrial Engineering Bachelor's Degree School for You

With 240 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, industrial engineering is the #46 most popular major in Iowa.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Industrial Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Iowa to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Iowa to see which bachelor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for IE students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Industrial Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for IE majors pursuing a bachelor's degree.

Best Iowa Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Industrial Engineering

Our analysis found Iowa State University to be the best value school for industrial engineering students who want to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Iowa. Located in the city of Ames, Iowa State is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Iowa State are $9,634 a year. On average, IE graduates from Iowa State take out $23,078 in student loans while working on their Bachelor's Degree. When it comes time to repay the loan, graduates who are on a 10-year repayment plan pay an average monthly payment of $460.

Iowa State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Industrial Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa list.

Full Industrial Engineering at Iowa State University Report

#2

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

Out of the 2 schools in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Iowa landed the # 2 spot on the list. Iowa is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Iowa City.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Iowa are $9,942 a year. When it comes time to repay the loan, graduates who are on a 10-year repayment plan pay an average monthly payment of $384.

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Best Value Industrial Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Industrial Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 55
Minnesota 130
Kansas 194
Nebraska 0
North Dakota 32
South Dakota 56

Industrial Engineering is one of 40 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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