2025 Best Industrial Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
a master's degree in
industrial engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #62 out of 343 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 11 schools in the Southwest Region 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 659 master's degrees in industrial engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Industrial Engineering School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of industrial engineering for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for industrial engineering students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Industrial Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
