2025 Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region

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 30 schools in the Far Western US Region 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 6,081 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

Your choice of management sciences & quantitative methods 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 good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college'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.

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

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 master'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 master'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 schools for management sciences & quantitative methods students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Schools

The management science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods in the Far Western US Region

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

10 Top Far Western US Region Schools for a Master's in Management Science

1

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

1,272 Annual Graduates

$120,846 Median Starting Salary

University of Southern California is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. Located in the city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.

Those management sciences & quantitative methods students who get their master's degree from University of Southern California make $13,279 more than the standard management science grad.

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2

University of California - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

1,054 Annual Graduates

$169,099 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods needs to take a look at University of California - Los Angeles. UCLA is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Los Angeles.

Those management sciences & quantitative methods students who get their master's degree from University of California - Los Angeles make $61,532 more than the typical management science graduate.

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3

University of California - Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

637 Annual Graduates

University of California - Berkeley is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. Located in the medium-sized city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley is a public university with a very large student population.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

323 Annual Graduates

University of California - San Diego is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. Located in the city of La Jolla, UCSD is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from University of California - San Diego

5

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, WA

212 Annual Graduates

$95,189 Median Starting Salary

UW Seattle is a very large public university located in the city of Seattle.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the management science program earn an average of $95,189 in the first couple years of their career.

More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from University of Washington - Seattle Campus

6

Pepperdine University
Malibu, CA

128 Annual Graduates

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

7

University of California - Davis
Davis, CA

456 Annual Graduates

$144,086 Median Starting Salary

UC Davis is a fairly large public university located in the small suburb of Davis.

Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods master's degree recipients from University of California - Davis receive an earnings boost of approximately $36,519 above the typical earnings of management sciences & quantitative methods majors.

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8

Saint Mary's College of California
Moraga, CA

11 Annual Graduates

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

9

University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

131 Annual Graduates

$138,031 Median Starting Salary

Located in the city of San Francisco, USFCA is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.

Master's recipients from the management sciences & quantitative methods degree program at University of San Francisco get $30,464 above the standard college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

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10

Chapman University
Orange, CA

74 Annual Graduates

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

Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Colleges by State

Explore the best management sciences & quantitative methods schools for a specific state in the Far Western US Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
California	253	3,491
Washington	183	218
Oregon	158	80
Nevada	105	10

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Rankings in Majors Related to Management Science

Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods is one of 21 different types of Business, Management & Marketing programs to choose from.

Management Science Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Management Science	4,615
Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods	1,103
Business Statistics	275
Actuarial Science	88

Majors Similar to Management Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	13,277
Accounting	1,073
Human Resource Management	852
Other Business, Management & Marketing	339
Taxation	275
Finance & Financial Management	265
Entrepreneurial Studies	252
Hospitality Management	172
Management Information Systems	167
General Business/Commerce	152

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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