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2023 Best Value Industrial Production Technology Basic Certificate Schools in Minnesota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$10,303 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Industrial Production Technology Basic Certificate School for You

In 2021-2022, 158 degrees and certificates were awarded to industrial production technology students who went to a Minnesota college or university. This makes it the #19 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which trade school program to enroll in when you have so many options available. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses.

The Best Value Industrial Production Technology Basic Certificate Schools in Minnesota ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Minnesota to see which basic certificate programs offered the best value experiences for industrial production tech students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Industrial Production Technology Basic Certificate Schools in Minnesota

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for industrial production tech majors pursuing a basic certificate.

Best Minnesota Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Industrial Production Technology

Our 2023 rankings named Anoka Technical College the best value school in Minnesota for industrial production technology students working on their basic certificate. Anoka Technical College is a small public school located in the large suburb of Anoka.

Anoka Technical College undergraduate students pay an average of $6,075 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Anoka Technical College also made our Best Industrial Production Technology Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Minnesota list, coming in at #5.

Full Industrial Production Technology at Anoka Technical College Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pine Technical & Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Industrial Production Technology Basic Certificate Schools in Minnesota list. Located in the town of Pine City, Pine Technical & Community College is a public school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Pine Technical & Community College are $4,643 a year.

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#3

Hennepin Technical College

Brooklyn Park, MN

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hennepin Technical College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Industrial Production Technology Basic Certificate Schools in Minnesota list. Hennepin Technical College is a small public school located in the large suburb of Brooklyn Park.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Hennepin Technical College are $5,881 a year.

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Out of the 4 schools in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, Dunwoody College of Technology landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the city of Minneapolis, Dunwoody College of Technology is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Dunwoody College of Technology are $24,611 a year.

Dunwoody College of Technology also took the #2 spot in our Best Industrial Production Technology Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Minnesota rankings.

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Best Value Industrial Production Technology Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Industrial Production Technology Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 187
Missouri 459
South Dakota 36
Iowa 62
North Dakota 92
Nebraska 32

One of 18 majors within the trade school area of study, industrial production technology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Industrial Production Tech Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Manufacturing Engineering Technology 4,587
Industrial Technology 4,134
Other Industrial Production Technologies 1,752
Welding Engineering Technology 328
Plastics & Polymer Engineering Technology 290
Composite Materials Technology 106
Metallurgical Technology 45
Chemical Engineering Technology 43
Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology 3

Majors Similar to Industrial Production Tech

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electromechanical Engineering Technology 10,780
Environmental Control Technology 9,376
Drafting & Design Engineering Technology 8,822
Electronics Engineering Technology 8,347
Engineering-Related Fields 6,553

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to ICAPlants.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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