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

Ranked #4 in popularity, management sciences & quantitative methods is one of the most sought-after master's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 14 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for management sciences & quantitative methods students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 3,195 master's degrees in management sciences & quantitative methods during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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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. 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.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts list to help you make the college decision.

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

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods.

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

1

Boston University
Boston, MA

370 Annual Graduates

$89,942 Median Starting Salary

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

Master's recipients from the management sciences & quantitative methods program at Boston University get $3,672 above the standard college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.

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2

Babson College
Wellesley, MA

40 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods needs to take a look at Babson College. Located in the large suburb of Wellesley, Babson College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Babson College

3

Northeastern University
Boston, MA

188 Annual Graduates

$82,134 Median Starting Salary

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods needs to look into Northeastern University. Northeastern is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Boston.

Soon after graduating, management science master's recipients generally make around $82,134 at the beginning of their careers.

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4

Bentley University
Waltham, MA

103 Annual Graduates

$89,107 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods has to look into Bentley University. Bentley is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Waltham.

Those management sciences & quantitative methods students who get their master's degree from Bentley University make $2,837 more than the average management science graduate.

More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Bentley University

5

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA

12 Annual Graduates

WPI is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Worcester.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Worcester Polytechnic Institute

6

Brandeis University
Waltham, MA

92 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Waltham, Brandeis 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 Brandeis University

7

Clark University
Worcester, MA

102 Annual Graduates

Clark is a small private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Worcester.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Clark University

8

University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lowell, MA

33 Annual Graduates

Located in the suburb of Lowell, UMass Lowell is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from University of Massachusetts - Lowell

9

University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
North Dartmouth, MA

35 Annual Graduates

UMass Dartmouth is a medium-sized public university located in the midsize suburb of North Dartmouth.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

10

Suffolk University
Boston, MA

157 Annual Graduates

$70,783 Median Starting Salary

Suffolk is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Boston.

Soon after graduating, management science master's recipients generally earn an average of $70,783 in the first five years of their career.

More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Suffolk University

Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Connecticut	153	465
Rhode Island	127	66
New Hampshire	108	336
Vermont	91	0
Maine	90	48

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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	1,905
Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods	909
Business Statistics	353
Actuarial Science	28

Most Popular Majors Related to Management Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	6,140
Accounting	710
Finance & Financial Management	690
General Business/Commerce	421
International Business	338
Marketing	320
Human Resource Management	273
Other Business, Management & Marketing	92
Hospitality Management	52
Taxation	49

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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