2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Operations Research Major in the Great Lakes Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Operations Research Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 1,718 people earned their degree in general operations research, making the major the 332nd most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 142 general operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 general operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,470 and $126,402 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Operations Research Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general operations research. That schools that top this list have a program in general operations research in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Operations Research Major in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree general operations research students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Operations Research in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Air Force Institute of Technology - Graduate School of Engineering & Management. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Operations Research Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s general operations research degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full Air Force Institute of Technology - Graduate School of Engineering & Management General Operations Research Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Operations Research Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Case Western Reserve University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Cleveland, Ohio, and it awarded 16 doctorate’s general operations research degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
