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2023 Most Popular Operations Research Schools in California

3 Colleges
$45,988 Avg Salary
$16,250 Avg Student Debt

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.

The Most Popular Operations Research Schools in California ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in California to see which programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Operations Research program at each school on the list.

Check out the operations research programs at these schools if you want to attend one of the most popular in California.

Our 2023 rankings named Naval Postgraduate School the most popular school in California for operations research students. Naval Postgraduate School is a small public school located in the midsize suburb of Monterey.

Read full report on Operations Research at Naval Postgraduate School

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of California - Berkeley. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Most Popular Operations Research Schools in California list. Located in the medium-sized city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley is a public college with a very large student population.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Southern California is a great place for operations research students. USC is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Los Angeles.

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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 3 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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