2024 Best Operations Research Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Operations Research is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #117 most popular master's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

In 2024, College Factual analyzed 5 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Operations Research Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 512 master's degrees in operations research during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Operations Research School for Your Master's Degree

The operations research master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on operations research students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other operations research students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for operations research to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized operations research related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for operations research students working on their master's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Operations Research Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Operations Research in the Middle Atlantic Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in operations research.

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Master's in Operations Research

1

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY

320 Annual Graduates

$111,312 Median Starting Salary

Columbia University in the City of New York is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in operations research. Columbia is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York.

Master's recipients from the operations research major at Columbia University in the City of New York earn $5,123 more than the typical graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

More information about a master’s in operations research from Columbia University in the City of New York

2

Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

13 Annual Graduates

Princeton University is a great option for students interested in a master's degree in operations research. Located in the city of Princeton, Princeton is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population.More information about a master’s in operations research from Princeton University

3

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

138 Annual Graduates

$101,067 Median Starting Salary

Cornell University is a great decision for students interested in a master's degree in operations research. Located in the small city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Master's students who receive their degree from the operations research program make about $101,067 in the first couple years of their career.

More information about a master’s in operations research from Cornell University

4

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

5 Annual Graduates

Carnegie Mellon University is a good decision for individuals interested in a master's degree in operations research. Carnegie Mellon is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Pittsburgh.More information about a master’s in operations research from Carnegie Mellon University

5

New York University
New York, NY

NYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York.More information about a master’s in operations research from New York University

Best Operations Research Colleges by State

Explore the best operations research colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	494
Pennsylvania	248	5
Maryland	193	0
New Jersey	188	13
Delaware	109	0

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Operations Research Related Rankings by Major

Operations Research is one of 41 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.

Operations Research Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Operations Research	512

Majors Similar to Operations Research

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	1,890
Mechanical Engineering	1,475
Computer Engineering	1,004
Biomedical Engineering	892
Civil Engineering	757
Systems Engineering	663
Industrial Engineering	594
General Engineering	554
Chemical Engineering	501
Materials Engineering	185

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.