2024 Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains 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.

College Factual reviewed 9 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of management sciences & quantitative methods. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 508 master's degrees in management sciences & quantitative methods during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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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 quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include 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 colleges for management sciences & quantitative methods students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 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 Sciences & Quantitative Methods Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Master's in Management Science

1

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

178 Annual Graduates

$74,188 Median Starting Salary

It is hard to beat University of Utah if you want to pursue a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. Located in the midsize city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Students who graduate with their master's from the management science program report average early career earnings of $74,188.

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2

University of Denver
Denver, CO

79 Annual Graduates

$71,472 Median Starting Salary

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

Students who graduate with their master's from the management science program state that they receive average early career income of $71,472.

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

3

Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, UT

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods needs to check out Brigham Young University - Provo. Located in the midsize city of Provo, BYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Brigham Young University - Provo

4

University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO

123 Annual Graduates

$79,580 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat University of Colorado Boulder if you want to pursue a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. Located in the medium-sized city of Boulder, CU - Boulder is a public university with a very large student population.

After graduation, management science master's recipients typically earn about $79,580 in the first five years of their career.

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5

Colorado State University - Fort Collins
Fort Collins, CO

16 Annual Graduates

Located in the midsize city of Fort Collins, Colorado State is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Colorado State University - Fort Collins

6

Utah State University
Logan, UT

10 Annual Graduates

USU is a very large public university located in the city of Logan.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Utah State University

7

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus
Denver, CO

30 Annual Graduates

$86,394 Median Starting Salary

CU Anschutz is a fairly large public university located in the city of Denver.

Master's recipients from the management sciences & quantitative methods program at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus get $8,502 above the standard college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.

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8

Colorado State University - Global Campus
Aurora, CO

58 Annual Graduates

$77,824 Median Starting Salary

Colorado State University - Global Campus is a medium-sized public university located in the large city of Aurora.

Students who graduate with their master's from the management science program report average early career income of $77,824.

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9

The University of Montana
Missoula, MT

12 Annual Graduates

UM is a moderately-sized public university located in the city of Missoula.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from The University of Montana

Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Colleges by State

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Colorado	185	308
Utah	164	188
Montana	90	12

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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	195
Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods	181
Business Statistics	132

Majors Similar to Management Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	8,645
Accounting	1,437
Management Information Systems	759
Human Resource Management	659
General Business/Commerce	296
Finance & Financial Management	245
Real Estate	95
Taxation	84
Marketing	60
Entrepreneurial Studies	17

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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