2022 Best Value Operations Research Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes 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 “Best Value Operations Research Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 the Great Lakes region, there were 169 operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 126 operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Operations Research Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in operations research. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent operations research programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the operations research program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The operations research school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Operations Research Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region”.

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Best Value Operations Research Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Operations Research Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Operations Research in the Great Lakes Region

#1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$30,083 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Operations Research Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is located in Champaign, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 62 masters’s operations research degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UIUC, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Operations Research Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UIUC are $30,083, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Operations Research at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

#2

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$47,958 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Case Western Reserve University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Operations Research Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. Case Western is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Cleveland, Ohio. It awarded 31 masters’s operations research degrees in 2019-2020.

Case Western also took the #1 spot in our “Best Operations Research Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Case Western are $47,958.

Read full report on Operations Research at Case Western

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for 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

• *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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