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2023 Best Value Industrial Engineering Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$26,517 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$68,454 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Industrial Engineering School for You

With 56 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, industrial engineering is the #158 most popular major in California.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Industrial Engineering Schools in California to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in California 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.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Industrial Engineering Schools in California

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

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality in Industrial Engineering

$7,852 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named San Jose State University the best value school in California for industrial engineering students. San Jose State is a very large public school located in the large city of San Jose.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at San Jose State are $7,852 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, San Jose State is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Industrial Engineering Schools in California list.

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$10,195 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Industrial Engineering Schools in California list. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a very large public school located in the suburb of San Luis Obispo.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo are $10,195 per year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Industrial Engineering Schools in California list.

Full Industrial Engineering at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo Report

$61,503 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at University of Southern California helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best industrial engineering schools in California. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

USC undergraduate students pay an average of $61,503 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, USC is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Industrial Engineering Schools in California list.

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Best Value Industrial Engineering Colleges in the Far Western US Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 52
Oregon 25

One of 39 majors within the area of study, industrial engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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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