2025 Best General Industrial Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools
13Colleges in the United States
346Doctor's Degrees
General Industrial Engineering is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #67 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 13 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for general industrial engineering students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 346 doctor's degrees in general industrial engineering during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great General Industrial Engineering School for Your Doctor's Degree
The general ie doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality general ie program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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 general industrial engineering students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general industrial engineering students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
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.
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 doctor'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 General Industrial Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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.