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Most Popular Operations Research Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region

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2023 Most Popular Operations Research Master's Degree Schools in the New England 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.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

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 the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the New England 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 following schools top our list of the Most Popular Operations Research Master's Degree Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named Northeastern University the most popular school in the New England Region for operations research students working on their master’s degree. Northeastern is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Boston.

About 38% of the students majoring in operations research at the school are women while 63% are male.

Full Operations Research at Northeastern University Report

The in-demand master’s degree programs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular operations research schools in the New England Region . MIT is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Cambridge.

Women make up 36% of the operations research majors at the school.

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Best Operations Research Colleges by State

Explore the best operations research colleges for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 55

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

Majors Similar to Operations Research

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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