2025 Best General Industrial Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Iowa

General Industrial Engineering is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #76 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Iowa to determine which ones were the best for general industrial engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 140 bachelor's degrees in general industrial engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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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 general industrial engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other general industrial engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor'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.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general industrial engineering related body.

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

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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 General Industrial Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Iowa list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Industrial Engineering in Iowa

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in general industrial engineering.

Top Iowa Schools for a Bachelor's in General IE

1

Iowa State University
Ames, IA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

102 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Iowa State University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in general industrial engineering. Located in the small city of Ames, Iowa State is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in general industrial engineering from Iowa State University

2

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

33 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in general industrial engineering needs to take a look at University of Iowa. Iowa is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Iowa City.More information about a bachelor’s in general industrial engineering from University of Iowa

Best General Industrial Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best General Industrial Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	475	23
Minnesota	446	102
Kansas	352	95
Nebraska	331	0
North Dakota	251	30
South Dakota	237	41

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General Industrial Engineering Related Rankings by Major

One of 0 majors within the Industrial Engineering area of study, General Industrial Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

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.