BS in Industrial Engineering Technology Design Solutions for Industrial Challenges
120
Credit Hours
100% online, 8-week courses
Transfer in up to 75% of the degree total
Help Your Organization Run Smoothly with Liberty’s Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering Technology
Businesses compete globally and locally in the marketplace, each looking for an advantage over the competition. Therefore, they are always looking for ways to increase efficiency while simultaneously improving quality and profitability. Conferring Liberty University’s Bachelor of Science (BS) in Industrial Engineering Technology could help you become prepared for a career where you are designing solutions for these problems in business or industrial environments.
This industrial engineering technology degree can prepare you for a future working as a member or leader of a technical team. You can explore how to design systems, components, and processes that meet specific needs within a broadly defined set of engineering problems. You can also gain the ability to conduct standard tests, measurements, experiments, and then analyze the results to improve performance.
Why Choose Liberty’s Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering Technology Degree?
Liberty University’s BS in Industrial Engineering Technology can help you gain a broad spectrum of skills that may be applied to many different fields. This degree is also 100% online, so you can continue serving in your community while preparing for a brighter future in the engineering and quality control field.
With practical skills to help you utilize a plant’s workers and equipment to meet production goals, you can ensure that production stays on schedule and within budget. This is valuable for businesses because you can help identify defects or problems in their processes and offer solutions to fix them. This can save a company millions of dollars over the course of production.
What Will You Study in Our Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering Technology Degree?
Our industrial engineering technology degree offers a broad scope of foundational knowledge that can prepare you for a career in the engineering field. Depending on your role, you must consider costs, human factors, and other principles of business management. Within our program, you can take accounting, business, chemistry, math, and engineering courses covering these and other topics.
Another part of your studies will be technical communication, which can help you understand the 3 main types of technical writing: operational, promotional, and reportorial. Understanding how to evaluate and edit your documents depending on the audience is vital in maintaining clear communication.
A large part of industrial engineering technology is refining business processes through rigorous data analysis. You can study Six Sigma to learn how to incorporate this valuable process improvement methodology into your organization’s operations. Upon graduation, you can be equipped to work effectively as a team member or leader in business or industrial engineering.
Potential Career Opportunities
- Industrial engineer
- Industrial technologist
- Lean coordinator
- Operations manager
- Process engineer
- Production manager
- Production planner
- Project engineer
- Quality engineer
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Degree Information
- This program falls under the School of Engineering.
- Review our Undergraduate Engineering Course Guides (login required).
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Tuition & Aid
Your success is our success, which is why we are committed to providing quality academics at an affordable tuition rate. While other colleges are increasing their tuition, we have frozen tuition rates for the majority of our undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs for the past 9 years – and counting.
To continue our mission of providing affordable education, electronic textbooks are provided for all undergraduate courses at no cost to you. As a full-time student, this could save you an estimated $800-2,000 per year on textbooks!
Undergraduate Full Time | $390/Credit |
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Undergraduate Part Time | $455/Credit |
Military Undergraduate | $250/Credit |
Tuition rates may change annually. For the most current information, please visit our LU Tuition Cost page.
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Admission Requirements
- Apply online or over the phone with an admissions counselor by calling (800) 424-9595.
- A non-refundable, non-transferable $50 application fee will be posted on the current application upon enrollment (waived for qualifying service members, veterans, and military spouses – documentation verifying military status is required).
- Send official high school transcripts or official GED test scores.*
- Students may be allowed to enroll in up to 12 credit hours with Liberty with the submission of our High School Self-Certification Form (login required – you will first need to claim your Liberty Account).
- Send official college transcripts (mailed as sealed, unopened copies or sent via a direct electronic transcript system).
- Unofficial transcripts can be used for acceptance purposes with the submission of a Transcript Request Form.
- Applicants whose native language is other than English must submit official scores for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or an approved alternative assessment. For information on alternative assessments or TOEFL waivers, please call Admissions or view the official International Admissions policy.
*Official high school transcript requirement may be waived with college transcripts from an accredited college/university showing at least 12 earned credit hours with an acceptable GPA.
Note: A 2.0 or above cumulative GPA is required for admission in good standing.
Transcript Policies
High School Transcript Policy
Applicants may submit a High School Self-Certification Form in lieu of a final official high school transcript in order to enroll in up to 12 credit hours at Liberty University.
- Applicants may submit a college transcript showing 12 or more credits from an accredited institution and a High School Self-Certification Form in lieu of high school transcripts.
Students must submit official high school transcripts, or official college transcripts showing at least 12 credit hours earned with an acceptable grade point average (GPA) from an accredited institution, in order to register for additional courses.
The official high school transcript, GED requirement, and High School Self-Certification Form can be waived if the applicant has earned an associate degree or higher.
Final transcripts must reflect all coursework and final grades received for grades 9-12, a graduation date, and an overall GPA. (Mailed transcripts must be in a sealed and unopened envelope.)
Unofficial College Transcript Policy
Unofficial transcripts combined with a Transcript Request Form can be used for admission. Official transcripts are required within 60 days of the admissions decision or before non-attendance drops for the first set of matriculated classes, whichever comes first, and will prevent enrollment into future terms until all official transcripts have been received.
Before sending unofficial college transcripts, please make sure they include the following:
- Your previous school’s name or logo printed on the document
- Cumulative GPA
- A list of completed courses and earned credit broken down by semester
- Degree and date conferred (if applicable)
Official College Transcript Policy
An acceptable official college transcript is one that has been issued directly from the institution and is in a sealed envelope. If you have one in your possession, it must meet the same requirements. If your previous institution offers electronic official transcript processing, they can send the document directly to luoverify@liberty.edu.
If the student uses unofficial transcripts with a Transcript Request Form to gain acceptance, all official transcripts must be received within 60 days of the admissions decision or before non-attendance drops for the first set of matriculated classes, whichever comes first. Failure to send all official transcripts within the 60-day period will prevent enrollment into future terms until all official transcripts have been received.
Military Transfers
If you have military-only transfer credits (completed basic training and enlistment), you must request an official military transcript. Please go to the Military Transfer Credit webpage to request your military transcript.
International Applicants
If you are an international applicant, you may be required to have your international transcripts reviewed. Information regarding the transcript evaluation process for international students can be found by visiting NACES.
Applicants whose native language is other than English must submit official scores for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or an approved alternative assessment. For information on alternative assessments or TOEFL waivers, please call Admissions or view the official International Admissions policy.
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Lynchburg, VA 24515
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Military
Liberty University is dedicated to providing world-class educational experiences to military students across the globe.
Who May Qualify?
- Active Duty
- Reserve/National Guard
- Veterans/Retirees
- Spouses of Service Members and Veterans/Retirees
- Current Department of Defense Employees
Available Benefits:
- Tuition discounts – $250 per credit hour for undergraduate courses
- Additional discount for veterans who serve in a civilian capacity as a First Responder (less than $565 per course)*
- 8-week courses, 8 different start dates each year, and no set login times (may exclude certain courses such as practicums, internships, or field experiences)
- Potential college credit for military training
*Not applicable to certificates.
Tuition rates may change annually. For the most current information, please visit our LU Tuition Cost page.
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