2025 Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic 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 43 schools in the Middle Atlantic 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 7,865 master's degrees in management sciences & quantitative methods during the 2021-2022 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. 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 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 the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

10 Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Master's in Management Science

1

New York University
New York, NY

636 Annual Graduates

$178,835 Median Starting Salary

New York University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. Located in the city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Master's recipients from the management sciences & quantitative methods major at New York University earn $72,948 above the typical college graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.

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2

Georgetown University
Washington, DC

240 Annual Graduates

$173,832 Median Starting Salary

It's hard to beat Georgetown University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. Located in the city of Washington, Georgetown is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.

Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods master's degree recipients from Georgetown University earn a boost of around $67,945 above the typical earnings of management sciences & quantitative methods graduates.

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3

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

240 Annual Graduates

$88,419 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods has to take a look at University of Pennsylvania. Located in the city of Philadelphia, UPenn is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Students who graduate with their master's from the management science program state that they receive average early career wages of $88,419.

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4

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

406 Annual Graduates

Cornell University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. Cornell is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Ithaca.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Cornell University

5

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

297 Annual Graduates

$169,421 Median Starting Salary

Located in the large city of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Master's recipients from the management sciences & quantitative methods program at Carnegie Mellon University make $63,534 more than the average college grad in this field shortly after graduation.

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6

George Washington University
Washington, DC

61 Annual Graduates

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

7

Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ

146 Annual Graduates

Stevens is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Hoboken.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Stevens Institute of Technology

8

Fordham University
Bronx, NY

185 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Bronx, Fordham U is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Fordham University

9

Villanova University
Villanova, PA

57 Annual Graduates

$115,618 Median Starting Salary

Located in the large suburb of Villanova, Villanova is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.

Those management sciences & quantitative methods students who get their master's degree from Villanova University make $9,731 more than the standard management science graduate.

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10

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

389 Annual Graduates

$127,604 Median Starting Salary

Located in the city of Rochester, University of Rochester is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.

Those management sciences & quantitative methods students who get their master's degree from University of Rochester receive $21,717 more than the standard management science grad.

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Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Colleges by State

Explore the best management sciences & quantitative methods schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	4,204
Pennsylvania	248	1,957
Maryland	193	964
New Jersey	188	457
District of Columbia	154	381
Delaware	109	22

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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
Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods	3,651
Management Science	2,876
Business Statistics	1,141
Actuarial Science	197

Majors Similar to Management Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	17,583
Accounting	3,131
Human Resource Management	1,895
Finance & Financial Management	1,000
General Business/Commerce	956
Real Estate	572
General Sales & Marketing	447
Marketing	431
Entrepreneurial Studies	339
Taxation	338

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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