2024 Best Operations Management Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
4Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
123Master's Degrees
Operations Management is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #227 most popular master's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for operations management students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 123 master's degrees in operations management during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Operations Management School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of operations management for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on operations management students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of operations management students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized operations management related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for operations management students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Operations Management Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Operations Management in the Great Lakes Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in operations management.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Master's in Maintenance Management
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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.