2024 Best Management Science Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
18
Colleges in the Plains States Region
353
Master's Degrees
If you pursue a master's degree in
management science, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #8 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 18 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Management Science Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 353 master's degrees in management science during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Management Science School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of management science 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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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 science students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of management science students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
- 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.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized management science related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for management science students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Management Science Schools
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 Science Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.