Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods at Grand Valley State University

If you plan to study management sciences and quantitative methods, take a look at what Grand Valley State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

GVSU is located in Allendale, Michigan and has a total student population of 23,350. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 175 students received a bachelor's degree in management science from GVSU.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods section at the bottom of this page.

GVSU Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Management Science

GVSU Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks management science programs across the country. The following shows how GVSU performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The management science major at GVSU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Management Sciences & Methods Bachelor’s Degree Schools	13

Earnings of GVSU Management Science Graduates

The median salary of management science students who receive their bachelor's degree at GVSU is $45,994. This is less than $53,059, which is the national average of all management science majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Management Science Student Demographics at GVSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the management science majors at Grand Valley State University.

GVSU Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Bachelor’s Program

Of the 175 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in management science from GVSU in 2021, 48% were men and 52% were women. The typical management science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% women. So female students are more repesented at GVSU since its program graduates 10% more women than average.

About 83% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in management science at GVSU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Grand Valley State University with a bachelor's in management science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	145
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

GVSU also has a doctoral program available in management science. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• International Business
• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Business/Managerial Economics
• Human Resource Management
• Hospitality Management

Careers That Management Science Grads May Go Into

A degree in management science can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MI, the home state for Grand Valley State University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
General and Operations Managers	58,140	$122,160
Chief Executives	2,620	$206,660
Business Professors	2,350	$107,140
Mathematical Science Professors	1,730	$85,970
Operations Research Analysts	1,640	$88,820

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Demhem under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.