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2023 Best Value Industrial Engineering Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$7,932 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$69,748 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Industrial Engineering School for You

With 250 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, industrial engineering is the #87 most popular major in North Carolina.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Industrial Engineering Schools in North Carolina ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in North Carolina to see which 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.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Industrial Engineering Schools in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Industrial Engineering Colleges.

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality in Industrial Engineering

$6,733 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found North Carolina A & T State University to be the best value school for industrial engineering students who want to pursue a degree in North Carolina. NC A&T is a large public school located in the city of Greensboro.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at NC A&T are $6,733 a year. After completing their degree, IE graduates from NC A&T carry an average student debtload of $31,000.

Full Industrial Engineering at North Carolina A & T State University Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend North Carolina State University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Industrial Engineering Schools in North Carolina list. NC State is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Raleigh.

NC State undergraduate students pay an average of $9,131 in in-state tuition and fees each year. IE majors at NC State take out an average of $22,489 in student loans while working on their egree.

NC State also took the #5 spot in our Best Industrial Engineering Schools in North Carolina rankings.

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Best Value Industrial Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Industrial Engineering Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 430
Virginia 265
Florida 429
Tennessee 77
Kentucky 49
South Carolina 256
Louisiana 96
Arkansas 70
Alabama 218
Mississippi 79
West Virginia 141

One of 40 majors within the area of study, industrial engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

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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