Industrial / Manufacturing / Systems Engineering
Ranked in 2017, part of Best Engineering Schools
Industrial engineers and manufacturing engineers focus on improving productivity and efficiency. Graduates work in many sectors, from autos to theme parks. These are the top graduate engineering schools for industrial / manufacturing / systems engineering. Each school's score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions.
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Save | Rank | School name | Score | Tuition | Total graduate engineering enrollment | Average GRE quantitative score (master's and Ph.D. students) (new test) | Engineering school research expenditures (2016 fiscal year) | |||||
#1 | Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA | 4.7 | $13,452 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,872 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 8,850 | 164 | $223,060,000 | ||||||
#2 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | 4.4 | $24,444 per year (in-state, full-time); $45,974 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,570 | 166 | $295,646,000 | ||||||
#3Tie | Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL | 4.2 | $50,424 per year (full-time) | 2,088 | 166 | $114,089,862 | ||||||
#3Tie | University of California—Berkeley Berkeley, CA | 4.2 | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,076 | 165 | $208,862,000 | ||||||
#5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | 4.1 | $48,140 per year (full-time) | 3,124 | 166 | $448,324,000 | ||||||
#6Tie | Purdue University—West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN | 4.0 | $10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,744 | 164 | $259,111,348 | ||||||
#6Tie | Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA | 4.0 | $14,532 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,644 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,338 | 162 | $128,303,167 | ||||||
#8Tie | Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY | 3.9 | $44,592 per year (full-time) | 3,350 | 167 | $146,963,000 | ||||||
#8Tie | Cornell University Ithaca, NY | 3.9 | $29,500 per year (full-time) | 2,069 | 165 | $118,254,750 | ||||||
#8Tie | Pennsylvania State University—University Park University Park, PA | 3.9 | $21,294 per year (in-state, full-time); $35,650 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,029 | 163 | $100,096,457 | ||||||
#8Tie | University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI | 3.9 | $11,942 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,269 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,821 | 164 | $141,939,724 | ||||||
#12 | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL | 3.8 | $17,834 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,628 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,806 | 166 | $227,584,892 | ||||||
#13Tie | Texas A&M University—College Station College Station, TX | 3.7 | $258 per credit (in-state, full-time); $681 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,469 | 164 | $282,798,000 | ||||||
#13Tie | University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA | 3.7 | $29,520 per year (full-time) | 5,497 | 166 | $192,117,384 | ||||||
#15Tie | North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC | 3.5 | $8,088 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,610 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,303 | 164 | $188,960,115 | ||||||
#15Tie | Ohio State University Columbus, OH | 3.5 | $11,928 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,376 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,849 | 164 | $128,840,826 | ||||||
#17Tie | Lehigh University (Rossin) Bethlehem, PA | 3.1 | $1,420 per credit (full-time) | 829 | 165 | $19,803,902 | ||||||
#17Tie | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY | 3.1 | $49,520 per year (full-time) | 646 | 164 | $53,892,000 | ||||||
#17Tie | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ | 3.1 | $16,536 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,128 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,395 | 163 | $69,393,591 | ||||||
#17Tie | University of Florida Gainesville, FL | 3.1 | $12,737 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,130 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,067 | 163 | $69,346,000 | ||||||
#17Tie | University of Pittsburgh (Swanson) Pittsburgh, PA | 3.1 | $24,962 per year (in-state, full-time); $41,222 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,029 | 162 | $88,203,781 | ||||||
#17Tie | University of Texas—Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX | 3.1 | $9,850 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,030 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,362 | 165 | $204,333,510 | ||||||
#17Tie | University of Washington Seattle, WA | 3.1 | $16,917 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,153 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,416 | 163 | $151,225,559 | ||||||
#24Tie | Arizona State University (Fulton) Tempe, AZ | 2.9 | $10,810 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,186 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,636 | 162 | $103,301,308 | ||||||
#24Tie | Iowa State University Ames, IA | 2.9 | $9,770 per year (in-state, full-time); $23,024 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,337 | 167 | $94,520,571 |