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2023 Most Popular Operations Research Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

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Finding the Best Operations Research Master's Degree School for You

Operations Research is the #132 most popular major in the country with 1,191 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. 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 Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in the Great Lakes Region 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 colleges and universities below are the most popular for operations research majors pursuing a master's degree.

Our analysis found University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to be the most popular school for operations research students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public college with a very large student population.

About 30% of the students majoring in operations research at the school are women while 70% are male.

Read full report on Operations Research at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Air Force Institute of Technology - Graduate School of Engineering & Management is a great place for operations research students working on their master’s degree. AFIT Graduate School of Engineering & Management is a small public school located in the large suburb of Wright-Patterson AFB.

Of the 28 students majoring in operations research at AFIT Graduate School of Engineering & Management, 75% are male and 25% are female.

Read full report on Operations Research at Air Force Institute of Technology - Graduate School of Engineering & Management

The in-demand master’s degree programs at Case Western Reserve University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular operations research schools in the Great Lakes Region . Case Western is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Cleveland.

Women make up 35% of the operations research majors at the school.

Read full report on Operations Research at Case Western Reserve University

The in-demand master’s degree programs at Illinois Institute of Technology helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular operations research schools in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the city of Chicago, Illinois Tech is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

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

Read full report on Operations Research at Illinois Institute of Technology

A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Western Michigan University is a great place for operations research students working on their master’s degree. WMU is a large public school located in the city of Kalamazoo.

Read full report on Operations Research at Western Michigan University

Best Operations Research Colleges by State

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State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 0
Illinois 52
Ohio 107

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 5 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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