2024 Best Operations Research Bachelor's Degree Schools
Operations Research isn't the most popular bachelor's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #206 in popularity out of 363 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for operations research students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 492 bachelor's degrees in operations research to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Operations Research School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The operations research bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. 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 bachelor'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 school's overall Best Colleges 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 bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor'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 operations research students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other operations research students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor'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 much debt operations research students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized operations research related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for operations research students working on their bachelor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 Operations Research Bachelor's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.
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