2023 Most Well Attended General Operations Research Major in the Southwest Region
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General Operations Research is the 332nd most popular major in the country with 1,698 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 70 general operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended General Operations Research Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general operations research. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in general operations research.
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Most Well Attended General Operations Research Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region general operations research students.
Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for General Operations Research in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended General Operations Research Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Dallas, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 43 degrees to qualified ’s general operations research students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.
Read full report on General Operations Research at SMU
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended General Operations Research Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Rice University landed the #2 spot on the list. Rice University is a medium-sized school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 12 ’s general operations research degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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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.
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