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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 108 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, industrial engineering is the #60 most popular major in North Carolina.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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, Grad Degree Search 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.

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 North Carolina

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

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality in Industrial Engineering

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 fairly 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.

Read full report on Industrial Engineering at North Carolina A & T State University

Out of the 2 schools in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, North Carolina State University landed the # 2 spot on the list. NC State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Raleigh.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at NC State are $9,131 a year.

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

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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
Virginia 50
Florida 151
Georgia 92
Tennessee 40
Kentucky 13
Louisiana 28
Alabama 55
South Carolina 65
Mississippi 22
Arkansas 7
West Virginia 15

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 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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