2024 Best Industrial Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in North Carolina

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #71 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for industrial engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 142 bachelor's degrees in industrial engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to industrial engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other industrial engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for industrial engineering to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
• 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 schools for industrial engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Industrial Engineering Schools

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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in North Carolina list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Industrial Engineering in North Carolina

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

Top North Carolina Schools for a Bachelor's in IE

1

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC

103 Annual Graduates

$66,081 Median Starting Salary

$22,309 Median Student Debt

North Carolina State University is a good choice for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering. Located in the city of Raleigh, NC State is a public university with a very large student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the ie program state that they receive average early career income of $66,081.

More information about a bachelor’s in industrial engineering from North Carolina State University

2

North Carolina A & T State University
Greensboro, NC

33 Annual Graduates

$73,414 Median Starting Salary

$31,000 Median Student Debt

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering has to take a look at North Carolina A & T State University. Located in the city of Greensboro, NC A&T is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Those industrial engineering students who get their bachelor's degree from North Carolina A & T State University make $3,667 more than the average ie graduate.

More information about a bachelor’s in industrial engineering from North Carolina A & T State University

Best Industrial Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	225	278
Georgia	224	338
Tennessee	220	37
Virginia	213	215
South Carolina	195	191
Kentucky	187	36
Alabama	184	163
Louisiana	171	68
Mississippi	169	57
Arkansas	167	63
West Virginia	147	126

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Rankings in Majors Related to IE

Industrial Engineering is one of 41 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.

IE Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Industrial Engineering	142

Most Popular Majors Related to IE

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	703
Biomedical Engineering	346
Computer Engineering	335
Electrical Engineering	326
Civil Engineering	305
General Engineering	254
Textile Engineering	211
Chemical Engineering	163
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	87
Agricultural Engineering	40

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.