2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Operations Management in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Maintenance Management Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 7,153 people earned their degree in operations management, making the major the 161st most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,876 operations management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 operations management graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Maintenance Management Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in operations management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their operations management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Maintenance Management Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Maintenance Management Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Operations Management in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Toledo
Toledo, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Toledo. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Maintenance Management Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Toledo, Ohio, this fairly large public school handed out 4 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s maintenance management students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Operations Management at University of Toledo

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Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

#14 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Maintenance Management Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Michigan State is a public institution located in East Lansing, Michigan. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.

Read full report on Operations Management at Michigan State

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Operations Management

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.