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2022 Best Value Operations Research Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k

1 Ranked Colleges
1 Degrees Awarded
$47,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Operations Research Schools for a Master's in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k

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 “Best Value Operations Research Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Operations Research is the 198th most popular major in the country with 1,760 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, operations research graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $79,967 and had an average of $28,139 in loans still to pay off.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 3 operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent operations research programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the operations research program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Operations Research Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Operations Research Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Operations Research (Income $0-$30k) in Pennsylvania

#1

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Operations Research Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Carnegie Mellon University landed the #1 spot on the list. Carnegie Mellon is a fairly large school located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that handed out 1 masters’s operations research degrees in 2019-2020.

Carnegie Mellon also took the #1 spot in our “Best Operations Research Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Carnegie Mellon University are $47,326.

Read more about Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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