2025 Best Industrial Production Technology Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
2Colleges in the Plains States Region
118Master's Degrees
Industrial Production Technology is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #166 out of the 343 majors across the country that we analyze each year. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Industrial Production Technology Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 118 master's degrees in industrial production technology during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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 production technology students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of industrial production technology students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
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 easy is it for industrial production technology to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized industrial production technology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for industrial production technology students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Industrial Production Technology Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
