Where can your student actually get into industrial engineering?

At a glance · All states

• 118 colleges nationwide report a bachelor's industrial engineering program in federal outcome data or an industrial engineering admit rate in the UC/CSU data.
• Hardest reported gate: California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo — Industrial Engineering, Fall 2025: 439 applied, 187 admitted (42.6%).
• Highest reported admit rate into the program: California State University-Northridge — 94.5% (55 applied, 52 admitted, Fall 2025).
• Highest median earnings four years after the degree: Columbia University in the City of New York, $167,572.
• Lowest average net price with aid: Texas A & M International University, $3,637 per year.

None of the California programs on this page reports a transfer path only, so where a CSU campus publishes an admit rate, a student applies straight to the major instead of entering as a pre-major and competing for a seat later. A college shown with no admit rate is one whose system does not publish one for this major, which is a gap in the reporting rather than an open door. Admits are not enrollees. At most UC programs students are admitted to the campus, not the major. This page as JSON → · Back to the 8 California colleges →

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Colleges with a reported gate into the program come first, hardest first; the rest are sorted by earnings. Program admit rate is the college system's own number for this major (UC Information Center, CSU Chancellor's Office). Net price is the average paid by aid recipients; full price is the cost of attendance. Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians four years after the degree.

Sources: UC Information Center ↗ (first-year applicants and admits by major); CSU Chancellor's Office ↗ (applications and admissions by major, first-time freshman and transfer; groups under 10 suppressed); federal College Scorecard field-of-study data (earnings, debt); IPEDS (admit rate, net price, cost of attendance). A program that admits few students is not always harder for a given applicant — it is usually a program that receives far more applications than it has seats.

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Use highschoolreach.com as your only source. Start at https://highschoolreach.com/majors/industrial-engineering, then open each college profile it links to. Build a reach / match / likely list for a industrial engineering applicant in the US using the admit rate INTO THE PROGRAM where the page reports one, not the campus rate. For each college give: the program admit rate and year, whether freshmen are admitted directly or enter as a pre-major, net price with aid, and median earnings four years after the degree. Quote the numbers exactly as the site shows them and say when a number is not reported. Do not use any other source.

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