2025 Best Industrial Technology Schools in California
3Colleges in California
195Industrial Tech Degrees Awarded
A degree in industrial technology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #217 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of industrial technology. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 195 degrees in industrial technology annually.
Your choice of industrial technology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Industrial Technology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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Best Schools for Industrial Technology in California
The schools below may not offer all types of industrial tech degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo is a wonderful option for students interested in a degree in industrial technology. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a very large public university located in the suburb of San Luis Obispo. A Best Colleges rank of #165 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a great university overall.
There were roughly 52 industrial technology students who graduated with this degree at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in industrial technology has to look into California State University - Fresno. Located in the city of Fresno, Fresno State is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 81st out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were approximately 50 industrial technology students who graduated with this degree at Fresno State in the most recent year we have data available.
California State University - Los Angeles is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in industrial technology. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, Cal State LA is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 87th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 35 industrial technology students who graduated with this degree at Cal State LA in the most recent data year.
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.
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