2025 Best Industrial Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania
3Colleges in Pennsylvania
408IE Degrees Awarded
$76,711Avg Early-Career Salary
Industrial Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #87 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Industrial Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 408 degrees in industrial engineering annually.
The ie program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Industrial Engineering rankings. For our Best Overall Industrial Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
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 Engineering in Pennsylvania
The schools below may not offer all types of ie degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It's hard to beat Lehigh University if you wish to pursue a degree in industrial engineering. Lehigh is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Bethlehem. A Best Colleges rank of #51 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Lehigh is a great university overall.
There were roughly 66 industrial engineering students who graduated with this degree at Lehigh in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the industrial engineering major at Lehigh University earn $4,431 above the average graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in industrial engineering. Pitt is a very large public university located in the city of Pittsburgh. This university ranks 6th out of 103 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were approximately 93 industrial engineering students who graduated with this degree at Pitt in the most recent year we have data available. After graduating, ie degree recipients usually make around $76,707 at the beginning of their careers.
Any student pursuing a degree in industrial engineering needs to check out Temple University. Temple is a very large public university located in the city of Philadelphia. This university ranks 8th out of 103 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 13 industrial engineering students who graduated with this degree at Temple 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.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
The ie program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Industrial Engineering rankings. For our Best Overall Industrial Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
