2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Operations Research in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Operations Research Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 1,698 people earned their degree in general operations research, making the major the 332nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 70 general operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 general operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Operations Research Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general operations research. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general operations research.

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

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

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

1

Rice University
Houston, Texas

#1 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rice University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Operations Research Major in the Southwest Region. Rice University is located in Houston, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 12 masters’s general operations research degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 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 Rice University

2

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#10 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Operations Research Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Southern Methodist University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 6 masters’s general operations research degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Full Southern Methodist University General Operations Research Report

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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.