2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2021-2022, 4,134 people earned their degree in industrial technology, making the major the 217th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 70 industrial technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 45 industrial technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,660 and $23,761 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in industrial technology. That schools that top this list have a program in industrial technology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree industrial tech students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Technology in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Farmingdale State College
Farmingdale, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Farmingdale State College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Farmingdale, New York, this medium-sized public school handed out 24 degrees to qualified bachelors’s industrial tech students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Industrial Technology at SUNY College of Technology at Farmingdale

2

Buffalo State
Buffalo, New York

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Buffalo State landed the #2 spot on the list. Buffalo State is a medium-sized public school situated in Buffalo, New York. It awarded 12 bachelors’s industrial tech degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Industrial Technology at Buffalo State

4

SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Utica, New York

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY Polytechnic Institute landed the #4 spot on the list. This small school is located in Utica, New York, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s industrial tech degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Industrial Technology at SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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