The main focus area for this major is General Industrial Engineering. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Industrial Engineering is a major offered under the engineering program of study at Iowa State University. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in IE, including such details as the number of graduates, ethnicity of students, related majors and concentrations, and more.
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Each year, we produce a number of different types of college rankings to help students decide which school is the best fit for them. The bachelor's program at Iowa State was ranked #25 on College Factual's Best Schools for IE list. It is also ranked #1 in Iowa.
Here are some of the other rankings for Iowa State.
Out-of-state part-time undergraduates at Iowa State paid an average of $968 per credit hour in 2019-2020. The average for in-state students was $336 per credit hour. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
---|---|---|
Tuition | $8,042 | $23,230 |
Fees | $1,274 | $1,274 |
Books and Supplies | $1,001 | $1,001 |
On Campus Room and Board | $9,193 | $9,193 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $2,430 | $2,430 |
Learn more about Iowa State tuition and fees.
You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at Iowa State in IE walked away with an average of $23,000 in student debt. That is about the same as the national average of $22,915.
IE who receive their bachelor’s degree from Iowa State make an average of $68,305 a year during the early days of their career. That is 7% higher than the national average of $63,872.
Online degrees for the Iowa State IE bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Iowa State Online Learning page.
About 33.9% of the students who received their BS in IE in 2019-2020 were women. This is about the same as the countrywide number of 34.1%.
Around 15.3% of IE bachelor’s degree recipients at Iowa State in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 29%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 7 |
Black or African American | 4 |
Hispanic or Latino | 7 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 89 |
International Students | 10 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 7 |
Industrial Engineering students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Industrial Engineering | 124 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to industrial engineering.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering | 148 |
Agricultural Engineering | 76 |
Chemical Engineering | 128 |
Civil Engineering | 143 |
Computer Engineering | 295 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.