Bachelor’s degree · earnings 4 years after completing
Highest-Paying Colleges for Industrial Production Technology (Bachelor's)
Graduates who complete a bachelor's degree in Industrial Production Technology earn a median of $80,890 four years after finishing, and the middle half earn between $61,191 and $99,266. We rank the 36 U.S. colleges whose Industrial Production Technology programs have at least 25 graduates in the Scorecard earnings sample, 2,364 graduates in all. That puts Industrial Production Technology at #29 of 131 bachelor's degree fields we rank by national median earnings.
Weber State University, in Utah, leads at $94,454, 16% above the median ranked school ($81,462). Most schools are tightly bunched: the middle half of ranked schools earn between $75,853 and $87,195, and the lowest earns $52,107, so outside the leaders the choice of school moves earnings less than the choice of major. 19 of the 36 ranked schools (53%) match or beat the national median.
Public universities dominate the top 20: 20 public, 0 private nonprofit and 0 for-profit. Across all ranked schools, 100% are public. The top 20 are spread across 16 states, with Texas the most common (3).
The top 20 schools cost about the same as the rest of the list: a median net price of $15,762 a year, against $14,770 across all 36 ranked schools. Their graduates who borrowed carry a median of $21,297 in federal loans, about 24% of one year of earnings. Measured against a typical high-school graduate in the same state, the median top-20 school recovers its net cost in about 1.3 years.
Showing the top 36 of 36 ranked schools. Select a column heading to re-sort the table. † = fewer than 40 graduates in the earnings sample.
| 1 | Weber State University Ogden, UT Public · 4-year | $94,454 | 44 | $19,497 | $10,258 | 0.7 |
| 2 | Ferris State University Big Rapids, MI Public · 4-year | $91,993 | 164 | $23,451 | $8,624 | 0.6 |
| 3 | University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg, MS Public · 4-year | $89,904 | 29 † | $21,208 | $21,708 | 1.5 |
| 4 | Texas A&M University-College Station College Station, TX Public · 4-year | $89,629 | 78 | $22,353 | $21,315 | 1.6 |
| 5 | Northern Kentucky University Highland Heights, KY Public · 4-year | $88,492 | 34 † | $26,000 | $8,191 | 0.6 |
| 6 | Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN Public · 4-year | $88,474 | 83 | $19,813 | $14,600 | 1.1 |
| 7 | Tarleton State University Stephenville, TX Public · 4-year | $87,678 | 71 | $18,750 | $20,783 | 1.6 |
| 8 | University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA Public · 4-year | $87,580 | 82 | $19,829 | $15,901 | 1.3 |
| 9 | Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Carbondale, IL Public · 4-year | $87,442 | 123 | $21,000 | $13,297 | 1.0 |
| 10 | Lamar University Beaumont, TX Public · 4-year | $87,113 | 34 † | $21,297 | $9,366 | 0.7 |
| 11 | California State University-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Public · 4-year | $86,970 | 48 | $15,967 | $3,967 | 0.3 |
| 12 | Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY Public · 4-year | $86,033 | 28 † | — | $10,990 | 0.9 |
| 13 | Ohio University-Main Campus Athens, OH Public · 4-year | $85,798 | 94 | $25,577 | $21,637 | 1.7 |
| 14 | Pennsylvania College of Technology Williamsport, PA Public · 4-year | $85,665 | 101 | $26,975 | $25,110 | 2.0 |
| 15 | University of Wisconsin-Platteville Platteville, WI Public · 4-year | $83,958 | 211 | $25,000 | $16,032 | 1.4 |
| 16 | Minnesota State University-Mankato Mankato, MN Public · 4-year | $83,115 | 30 † | $27,100 | $19,139 | 1.7 |
| 17 | East Carolina University Greenville, NC Public · 4-year | $81,852 | 237 | $19,000 | $15,739 | 1.3 |
| 18 | Pittsburg State University Pittsburg, KS Public · 4-year | $81,562 | 29 † | $20,588 | $15,784 | 1.4 |
| 19 | Eastern Illinois University Charleston, IL Public · 4-year | $81,362 | 38 † | $22,000 | $12,786 | 1.1 |
| 20 | Southeast Missouri State University Cape Girardeau, MO Public · 4-year | $80,820 | 39 † | $24,395 | $15,882 | 1.4 |
| 21 | Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS Public · 4-year | $79,068 | 85 | $21,875 | $17,595 | 1.5 |
| 22 | Farmingdale State College Farmingdale, NY Public · 4-year | $78,267 | 25 † | — | $10,867 | 1.0 |
| 23 | North Carolina A & T State University Greensboro, NC Public · 4-year | $77,476 | 67 | $28,561 | $10,846 | 1.0 |
| 24 | Pennsylvania Western University California, PA Public · 4-year | $77,401 | 27 † | — | $18,256 | 1.8 |
| 25 | Bemidji State University Bemidji, MN Public · 4-year | $76,882 | 30 † | — | $15,261 | 1.6 |
| 26 | Millersville University of Pennsylvania Millersville, PA Public · 4-year | $76,831 | 77 | $26,000 | $20,787 | 2.1 |
| 27 | Southeastern Louisiana University Hammond, LA Public · 4-year | $76,401 | 44 | $19,500 | $13,154 | 1.3 |
| 28 | Northwestern State University of Louisiana Natchitoches, LA Public · 4-year | $74,209 | 31 † | $25,250 | $13,606 | 1.4 |
| 29 | Saint Cloud State University Saint Cloud, MN Public · 4-year | $73,695 | 27 † | $14,574 | $13,529 | 1.5 |
| 30 | Ball State University Muncie, IN Public · 4-year | $73,664 | 28 † | — | $14,940 | 1.6 |
| 31 | University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Pine Bluff, AR Public · 4-year | $71,983 | 42 | $25,262 | $12,653 | 1.3 |
| 32 | Texas A&M University-Kingsville Kingsville, TX Public · 4-year | $71,207 | 41 | $21,250 | $12,090 | 1.3 |
| 33 | University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette, LA Public · 4-year | $69,334 | 138 | $20,500 | $13,530 | 1.5 |
| 34 | Wayne State College Wayne, NE Public · 4-year | $68,431 | 31 † | $20,845 | $15,360 | 2.0 |
| 35 | Fitchburg State University Fitchburg, MA Public · 4-year | $66,707 | 47 | $25,020 | $14,262 | 2.2 |
| 36 | Jackson State University Jackson, MS Public · 4-year | $52,107 | 27 † | $28,687 | $23,836 | 4.5 |
How this ranking is built
A school appears here only if it meets every condition below.
- Which programs count
- Main campuses only, one entry per institution. Scorecard reports program outcomes for the whole six-digit federal ID (OPEID6), so branch campuses share their parent’s numbers and are not listed twice.
- Only bachelor's degree programs in Industrial Production Technology (CIP 1506, the four-digit code Scorecard uses to group related programs).
- At least 25 graduates in the earnings sample. Smaller samples are left out because their medians swing too much and the counts carry a little privacy noise.
- A major gets a page only when at least 20 schools qualify. This one has 36.
- Ranked by median earnings 4 years after completing, highest first. Ties go to the larger sample, then to the school name.
- Schools missing earnings or a sample size are left out rather than estimated.
- What the numbers mean
- Earnings: median annual earnings of graduates four years after completing. The cohort completed in academic years 2017-18 and 2018-19 and was measured in calendar years 2022 and 2023, in 2024 dollars.
- Who is counted: graduates who received federal student aid (Title IV grants or loans), and only those who were working and not enrolled in more school that year. Graduates without federal aid, those who went on to further study and those with no earnings are not in the median.
- Scorecard adds privacy noise to counts and medians and hides values it cannot protect, so a gap of a few percent between two schools is not meaningful.
- Graduates: the number of graduates in that earnings sample. A † marks fewer than 40, where the figure is less precise.
- Debt: median federal loan debt (Stafford and Grad PLUS loans disbursed at that school) of graduates who borrowed, from the 2018-19 and 2019-20 completers. Parent PLUS and private loans are not included.
- Net price: average yearly cost after grants and scholarships for the whole institution, not this major, academic year 2023-24.
- Payback: 4 years of net price divided by how much these earnings exceed a high-school graduate’s in the school’s state. Shown only when that gap is at least $2,000, the same formula as the rest of the site.
- Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard field-of-study data, June 2026 release.
Top states for Industrial Production Technology earnings
Median of the school medians for states with at least 3 ranked schools. The best school in each state is shown.
| State | Median earnings | Ranked schools | Top school |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | $87,396 | 4 | Texas A&M University-College Station |
| Mississippi | $79,068 | 3 | University of Southern Mississippi |
| Pennsylvania | $77,401 | 3 | Pennsylvania College of Technology |
| Minnesota | $76,882 | 3 | Minnesota State University-Mankato |
| Louisiana | $74,209 | 3 | Southeastern Louisiana University |
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