<p>Civil and industrial are two VERY DIFFERENT fields. Industrial engineering in different school has different emphasis. Make sure you do enough research. At Northwestern, it’s called industrial engineering and management science, suggesting a balance in the two areas.</p>
<p>I’d say Penn St/Texas are the best buy.</p>
<p>Among the schools you are considering, Penn St and Northwestern are the only ones that have top-5 industrial enginereing program (graduate ranking). Yet, you opt to pick civil for those two schools. </p>
<p>Civil engineering companies tend to recruit locally and are not really that picky about which schools you graduate from. </p>
<p>For industrial engineers that look for business/engineering management, Northwestern has the best rep. Penn St also has a very highly ranked program so it should have a pretty good rep too.</p>