2025 Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #48 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

College Factual reviewed 42 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of management sciences & quantitative methods. Combined, these schools handed out 1,868 bachelor's degrees in management sciences & quantitative methods to qualified students.

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

The management science bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on management sciences & quantitative methods students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other management sciences & quantitative methods students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for management sciences & quantitative methods to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
• 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 colleges for management sciences & quantitative methods students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods in the Great Lakes Region

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for management sciences & quantitative methods students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

10 Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Management Science

1

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN

115 Annual Graduates

$83,810 Median Starting Salary

University of Notre Dame is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. Notre Dame is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Notre Dame.

Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods bachelor's degree recipients from University of Notre Dame get an earnings boost of about $23,789 above the average earnings of management sciences & quantitative methods majors.

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2

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI

61 Annual Graduates

$83,260 Median Starting Salary

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods needs to check out University of Wisconsin - Madison. UW - Madison is a very large public university located in the city of Madison.

Bachelor's recipients from the management sciences & quantitative methods degree program at University of Wisconsin - Madison get $23,239 more than the standard college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

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3

Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN

170 Annual Graduates

$70,903 Median Starting Salary

$35,936 Median Student Debt

It is hard to beat Purdue University - Main Campus if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. Located in the small city of West Lafayette, Purdue is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Bachelor's recipients from the management sciences & quantitative methods major at Purdue University - Main Campus get $10,882 more than the average college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.

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4

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

53 Annual Graduates

$72,527 Median Starting Salary

$30,368 Median Student Debt

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods needs to check out University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. UIUC is a fairly large public university located in the city of Champaign.

Those management sciences & quantitative methods students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign earn $12,506 more than the standard management science student.

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5

Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI

19 Annual Graduates

Marquette is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Milwaukee.More information about a bachelor’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Marquette University

6

DePaul University
Chicago, IL

103 Annual Graduates

$51,522 Median Starting Salary

$55,224 Median Student Debt

DePaul is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Chicago.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the management science program make about $51,522 in the first couple years of working.

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7

Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, OH

52 Annual Graduates

$68,814 Median Starting Salary

Located in the city of Columbus, Ohio State is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods bachelor's degree recipients from Ohio State University - Main Campus receive an earnings boost of around $8,793 above the typical earnings of management sciences & quantitative methods graduates.

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8

Miami University - Oxford
Oxford, OH

10 Annual Graduates

$74,770 Median Starting Salary

Located in the town of Oxford, Miami University - Oxford is a public university with a large student population.

Bachelor's recipients from the management sciences & quantitative methods major at Miami University - Oxford earn $14,749 above the average college grad in this field when they enter the workforce.

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9

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

21 Annual Graduates

$69,443 Median Starting Salary

Michigan State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of East Lansing.

Those management sciences & quantitative methods students who get their bachelor's degree from Michigan State University receive $9,422 more than the standard management science student.

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10

Xavier University
Cincinnati, OH

16 Annual Graduates

Located in the large city of Cincinnati, Xavier is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population.More information about a bachelor’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Xavier University

Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Colleges by State

Explore the best management sciences & quantitative methods colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	261	404
Ohio	252	375
Illinois	241	872
Indiana	235	391
Wisconsin	213	143

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Rankings in Majors Related to Management Science

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

Management Science Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Management Science	1,186
Actuarial Science	476
Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods	177
Business Statistics	29

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	15,832
Finance & Financial Management	9,072
Marketing	8,377
Accounting	6,561
General Business/Commerce	4,945
Human Resource Management	1,877
Management Information Systems	1,255
Hospitality Management	779
Construction Management	636
International Business	608

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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