2025 Best Industrial & Management Engineering Schools in the Far Western US Region
4Colleges in the Far Western US Region
578Industrial Management Degrees Awarded
Ranked #133 in popularity, industrial & management engineering is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Industrial & Management Engineering Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 578 degrees in industrial & management engineering annually.
Choosing a Great Industrial & Management Engineering School
Your choice of industrial & management engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for industrial & management engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Industrial & Management Engineering Rankings by Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Industrial & Management Engineering Schools in the Far Western US Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Industrial & Management Engineering in the Far Western US Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the industrial management degree levels they offer.
Top Far Western US Region Schools in Industrial Management
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in industrial & management engineering. Located in the suburb of San Luis Obispo, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #165 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a great university overall.
There were approximately 24 industrial & management engineering students who graduated with this degree at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in industrial & management engineering needs to take a look at Washington State University. Located in the town of Pullman, Wazzu is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #182 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Wazzu is a great university overall.
There were about 75 industrial & management engineering students who graduated with this degree at Wazzu in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat California State Polytechnic University - Pomona if you wish to pursue a degree in industrial & management engineering. Cal Poly Pomona is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Pomona. This university ranks 60th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 13 industrial & management engineering students who graduated with this degree at Cal Poly Pomona in the most recent year we have data available.
California State University - Chico is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in industrial & management engineering. Located in the midsize city of Chico, Chico State is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 64th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 21 industrial & management engineering students who graduated with this degree at Chico State in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).