2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Operations Research Major in the New England Region

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General Operations Research is the 332nd most popular major in the country with 1,698 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 98 general operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 43 general operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Operations Research Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general operations research. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general operations research program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Operations Research Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree general operations research students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Operations Research in the New England Region

1

Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts

#20 overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northeastern University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Operations Research Major in the New England Region. This large school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 32 masters’s general operations research degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Operations Research at Northeastern University

2

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#1 overall quality in New England

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Operations Research Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Massachusetts Institute of Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s general operations research degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about General Operations Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Operations Research

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.