Operations Research at University of California - Berkeley

If you are interested in studying operations research, you may want to check out the program at University of California - Berkeley. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UC Berkeley is located in Berkeley, California and approximately 42,327 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 111 students received their master's degree in operations research.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Operations Research section at the bottom of this page.

UC Berkeley Operations Research Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Operations Research
• Doctorate Degree in Operations Research

UC Berkeley Operations Research Rankings

There were 5 students who received their doctoral degrees in operations research, making the school the #7 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Operations Research Student Demographics at UC Berkeley

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the operations research majors at University of California - Berkeley.

UC Berkeley Operations Research Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 111 students graduated with a master's degree in operations research from UC Berkeley. About 47% were men and 53% were women.

In the operations research master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 15% of degree recipients. That is 3% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of California - Berkeley with a master's in operations research.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	15
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	8
International Students	85
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Related Majors

• General Engineering
• Biochemical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Nuclear Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering

Careers That Operations Research Grads May Go Into

A degree in operations research can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for University of California - Berkeley.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Operations Research Analysts	11,340	$95,470
Natural Sciences Managers	7,870	$168,790

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By LAgirl5252 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.