Most Popular Schools for Operations Research Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the development and application of complex mathematical or simulation models to solve problems involving operational systems, where the system concerned is subject to human intervention. Includes instruction in advanced multivariate analysis, application of judgment and statistical tests, optimization theory and techniques, resource allocation theory, mathematical modeling, control theory, statistical analysis, and applications to specific research problems.

Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	Columbia University in the City of New York	402	3%	$76,856
2	Cornell University	249	4%	$73,904
3	Naval Postgraduate School	152	6%	N/A
4	University of California-Berkeley	81	1%	$38,066
5	Princeton University	67	4%	$70,900
6	United States Naval Academy	64	6%	N/A
7	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	60	1%	$30,102
8	Southern Methodist University	60	2%	$74,737
9	Air Force Institute of Technology-Graduate School of Engineering & Management	56	12%	N/A
10	Case Western Reserve University	43	2%	$67,332
11	United States Air Force Academy	34	3%	N/A
12	CUNY Bernard M Baruch College	32	1%	$32,681
13	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	29	0%	$28,776
14	United States Military Academy	23	2%	N/A
15	Northeastern University	21	0%	$70,592
16	United States Coast Guard Academy	21	10%	N/A
17	Florida Institute of Technology	18	1%	$59,530
18	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	13	0%	$23,977
19	University of Southern California	9	0%	$74,825
20	Texas A & M University-College Station	8	0%	$29,506
21	Kansas State University	5	0%	$24,923
22	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	5	0%	$70,240
23	Illinois Institute of Technology	3	0%	$65,386
24	Carnegie Mellon University	2	0%	$72,283
25	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	1	0%	$32,443
26	Stony Brook University	1	0%	$26,091

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Operations Research program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.