2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Technology in the Great Lakes Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Great Lakes region, there were 869 industrial technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 122 industrial technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree industrial tech students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Technology in the Great Lakes Region

1

Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Illinois University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Eastern Illinois University is a medium-sized school located in Charleston, Illinois that handed out 59 masters’s industrial tech degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Industrial Technology at Eastern Illinois University

2

Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois

Top 20% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Illinois State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region. Illinois State is located in Normal, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 58 masters’s industrial tech degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Illinois State University Industrial Technology Report

3

Indiana State University
Terre Haute, Indiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Industrial Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Indiana State University is a public institution located in Terre Haute, Indiana. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Industrial Technology at Indiana State

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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