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2023 Best Value Operations Research Schools in California

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$37,865 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$45,988 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Operations Research School for You

Operations Research is the #68 most popular major in California with 292 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Operations Research Schools in California ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in California to see which programs offered the best value experiences for operations research students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Operations Research Schools in California

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Operations Research Colleges.

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality in Operations Research

$14,226 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of California - Berkeley to be the best value school for operations research students who want to pursue a degree in California. Located in the city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley is a public college with a very large student population.

UC Berkeley undergraduate students pay an average of $14,226 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UC Berkeley not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Operations Research Schools in California list.

Full Operations Research at University of California - Berkeley Report

$61,503 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Southern California is a great value for operations research students. USC is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Los Angeles.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at USC are $61,503 a year.

USC also claimed a spot on our Best Operations Research Schools in California list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

Read full report on Operations Research at University of Southern California

Best Value Operations Research Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Operations Research Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded

One of 39 majors within the area of study, operations research has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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.

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