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2023 Best Value Industrial Engineering Schools in Iowa

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$9,788 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$77,812 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Industrial Engineering 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.

The Best Value Industrial Engineering Schools in Iowa ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in Iowa to see which ones offered the best value programs for IE students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Schools in Iowa

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

Best Iowa Schools for Affordable Quality in Industrial Engineering

$9,634 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Iowa State University the best value school in Iowa for industrial engineering students. Located in the city of Ames, Iowa State is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Iowa State undergraduate students pay an average of $9,634 in in-state tuition and fees each year. After completing their degree, IE graduates from Iowa State carry an average student debtload of $23,750. When it comes time to repay the loan, graduates who are on a 10-year repayment plan pay an average monthly payment of $460.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Iowa State is ranked #4 for overall quality for IE in Iowa.

Full Industrial Engineering at Iowa State University Report

#2

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA
$9,942 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Iowa. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Industrial Engineering Schools in Iowa list. Iowa is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Iowa City.

Iowa undergraduate students pay an average of $9,942 in in-state tuition and fees each year. IE majors at Iowa take out an average of $23,712 in student loans while working on their egree. When it comes time to repay the loan, graduates who are on a 10-year repayment plan pay an average monthly payment of $384.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Iowa also is in the top 20% of our Best Industrial Engineering Schools in Iowa ranking.

Full Industrial Engineering at University of Iowa Report

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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