2025 Best Industrial Engineering Master's Degree Schools in New Jersey

If you plan on getting your master's degree in industrial engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #62 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for industrial engineering students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 59 master's degrees in industrial engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

Jump to one of the following sections: * Our Methodology

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on industrial engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other industrial engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt industrial engineering students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized industrial engineering related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for industrial engineering students working on their master's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Engineering Master's Degree Schools in New Jersey list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Industrial Engineering in New Jersey

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for industrial engineering students seeking a a master's degree.

Top New Jersey Schools for a Master's in IE

1

Rutgers University - New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ

26 Annual Graduates

Rutgers University - New Brunswick is a wonderful decision for individuals pursuing a master's degree in industrial engineering. Rutgers New Brunswick is a fairly large public university located in the small city of New Brunswick.More information about a master’s in industrial engineering from Rutgers University - New Brunswick

2

New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ

33 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in industrial engineering needs to look into New Jersey Institute of Technology. Located in the city of Newark, NJIT is a public school with a large student population.More information about a master’s in industrial engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology

Best Industrial Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Industrial Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	440
Pennsylvania	248	98
Maryland	193	0

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Industrial Engineering Related Rankings by Major

One of 41 majors within the Engineering area of study, Industrial Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

IE Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Industrial Engineering	59

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	226
Mechanical Engineering	215
Systems Engineering	178
Civil Engineering	145
Computer Engineering	116
Biomedical Engineering	111
Chemical Engineering	102
Construction Engineering	81
General Engineering	57
Environmental Engineering	20

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.