2025 Best Operations Research Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
2Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
852Operations Research Degrees Awarded
$93,496Avg Early-Career Salary
Operations Research is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #203 out of the 395 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for operations research students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 852 degrees in operations research annually.
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Best Schools for Operations Research in the Middle Atlantic Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the operations research degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Operations Research
Every student who is interested in operations research has to take a look at Cornell University. Located in the small city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Degree recipients from the operations research degree program at Cornell University get $8,768 above the average college grad in this field when they enter the workforce.
Any student who is interested in operations research has to check out Columbia University in the City of New York. Columbia is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New York.
Degree recipients from the operations research degree program at Columbia University in the City of New York get $16,961 more than the average graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
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).
