2023 Most Well Attended Operations Research Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Operations Research Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Operations Research is the 203rd most popular major in the country with 1,698 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, operations research graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $84,787 and had an average of $14,538 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 368 operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,988 and $16,250 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 202 operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Operations Research Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in operations research. To top this list, a school must have a successful operations research program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Operations Research Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree operations research students.

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Operations Research in the Far Western US Region

1

University of California - Berkeley
Berkeley, California

#3 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Berkeley. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Operations Research Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s list. University of California - Berkeley is a large public school situated in Berkeley, California. It awarded 111 masters’s operations research degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Operations Research at University of California - Berkeley

2

Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Naval Postgraduate School. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Operations Research Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s list. This small school is located in Monterey, California, and it awarded 85 masters’s operations research degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Operations Research at Naval Postgraduate School

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University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

#4 overall quality in Far Western US

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Operations Research Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern California landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Los Angeles, California, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified masters’s operations research students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Operations Research at USC

• Most Popular 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

• *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.