2025 Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Master's Degree Schools in California

If you pursue a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #4 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 24 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for management sciences & quantitative methods students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 4,600 master's degrees in management sciences & quantitative methods to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods School for Your Master's Degree

The management science master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality management science program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

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.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to management sciences & quantitative methods students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of management sciences & quantitative methods 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.
• Student Debt - How much debt management sciences & quantitative methods students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized management sciences & quantitative methods related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for management sciences & quantitative methods students working on their master's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Master's Degree Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods in California

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for management sciences & quantitative methods students seeking a a master's degree.

10 Top California Schools for a Master's in Management Science

1

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

771 Annual Graduates

$120,846 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat University of Southern California if you want to pursue a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. USC is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Los Angeles.

Master's recipients from the management sciences & quantitative methods degree program at University of Southern California earn $9,214 more than the standard college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.

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2

University of California - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

874 Annual Graduates

$169,099 Median Starting Salary

University of California - Los Angeles is a wonderful option for individuals interested in a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, UCLA is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Those management sciences & quantitative methods students who get their master's degree from University of California - Los Angeles make $57,467 more than the average management science grad.

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3

University of California - Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

673 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat University of California - Berkeley if you want to pursue a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. UC Berkeley is a very large public university located in the city of Berkeley.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from University of California - Berkeley

4

University of California - San Diego
La Jolla, CA

302 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat University of California - San Diego if you want to pursue a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. UCSD is a fairly large public university located in the large city of La Jolla.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from University of California - San Diego

5

Pepperdine University
Malibu, CA

61 Annual Graduates

Located in the large suburb of Malibu, Pepperdine is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Pepperdine University

6

University of California - Davis
Davis, CA

355 Annual Graduates

$144,086 Median Starting Salary

Located in the small suburb of Davis, UC Davis is a public university with a very large student population.

Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods master's degree recipients from University of California - Davis earn a boost of about $32,454 over the typical income of management sciences & quantitative methods graduates.

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7

Saint Mary's College of California
Moraga, CA

SMC is a small private not-for-profit college located in the suburb of Moraga.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Saint Mary’s College of California

8

University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

71 Annual Graduates

$138,031 Median Starting Salary

USFCA is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of San Francisco.

Master's recipients from the management sciences & quantitative methods degree program at University of San Francisco get $26,399 above the typical college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

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9

Chapman University
Orange, CA

Chapman is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Orange.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Chapman University

10

Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA

21 Annual Graduates

Loyola Marymount is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Los Angeles.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Loyola Marymount University

Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Washington	183	218
Oregon	158	80
Nevada	105	10

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Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Related Rankings by Major

One of 21 majors within the Business, Management & Marketing area of study, Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods has other similar majors worth exploring.

Management Science Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Management Science	3,436
Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods	793
Business Statistics	315
Actuarial Science	56

Majors Similar to Management Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	10,692
Human Resource Management	966
Accounting	827
Finance & Financial Management	276
Entrepreneurial Studies	242
Taxation	219
Marketing	165
International Business	161
General Business/Commerce	132
Management Information Systems	130

Notes and References

• 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.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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