2025 Best Industrial Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Industrial Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #63 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Industrial Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 72 doctor's degrees in industrial engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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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 doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor'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 - The number of 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.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for industrial engineering to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor'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 doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Industrial Engineering Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Industrial Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Industrial Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for industrial engineering students seeking a a doctor's degree.

Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Doctorate in IE

1

Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN

13 Annual Graduates

Purdue University - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in industrial engineering. Located in the small city of West Lafayette, Purdue is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in industrial engineering from Purdue University - Main Campus

2

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI

11 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat University of Wisconsin - Madison if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in industrial engineering. UW - Madison is a very large public university located in the city of Madison.More information about a doctorate in industrial engineering from University of Wisconsin - Madison

Best Industrial Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best industrial engineering schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Illinois	153	21
Michigan	149	22
Ohio	144	9
Indiana	132	24
Wisconsin	108	13

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Rankings in Majors Related to IE

One of 41 majors within the Engineering area of study, Industrial Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

IE Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Industrial Engineering	72

Majors Similar to IE

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	392
Electrical Engineering	355
Chemical Engineering	212
Biomedical Engineering	180
Civil Engineering	180
Materials Engineering	175
Computer Engineering	91
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	89
Electrical and Computer Engineering.	57
General Engineering	53

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.