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2023 Most Popular Operations Research Master's Degree Schools in California

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Finding the Best Operations Research Master's Degree 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Most Popular Operations Research Master's Degree Schools in California to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in California to see which master's degree 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.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Operations Research Master's Degree Colleges.

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

Women make up 53% of the operations research majors at the school.

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The in-demand master’s degree programs at Naval Postgraduate School helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular operations research schools in California. Naval Postgraduate School is a small public school located in the midsize suburb of Monterey.

Women make up 19% of the operations research majors at the school.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Operations Research Master’s Degree Schools in California list. USC is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Los Angeles.

Of the 6 students majoring in operations research at USC, 83% are male and 17% are female.

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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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