2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Operations Research in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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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 has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Operations Research Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 1,718 people earned their degree in operations research, making the major the 203rd most popular in the United States. In , operations research graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $84,787 and had an average of $17,166 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 69 operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 operations research graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Operations Research Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in operations research. That schools that top this list have a program in operations research in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Operations Research Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree operations research students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Operations Research in the New England Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Operations Research Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeastern University landed the #1 spot on the list. Northeastern University is located in Boston, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 19 masters’s operations research degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.
Read full report on Operations Research at Northeastern University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Operations Research Major in the New England Region list. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s operations research degrees to 6 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 99%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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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%.
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- *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.
