Operations Research at United States Coast Guard Academy

If you are interested in studying operations research, you may want to check out the program at United States Coast Guard Academy. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

USCGA is located in New London, Connecticut and has a total student population of 1,056. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 43 students received a bachelor's degree in operations research from USCGA.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Operations Research section at the bottom of this page.

USCGA Operations Research Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Operations Research

USCGA Operations Research Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks operations research programs across the country. The following shows how USCGA performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The operations research major at USCGA is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Operations Research. 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 Focused Operations Research Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1
Most Focused Operations Research Schools	1
Most Popular Operations Research Bachelor’s Degree Schools	6
Most Popular Operations Research Schools	10

Operations Research Student Demographics at USCGA

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the operations research majors at United States Coast Guard Academy.

USCGA Operations Research Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 65% of operations research bachelor's degrees went to men and 35% went to women.

About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in operations research at USCGA are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 24% more racial-ethnic minorities in its operations research bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from United States Coast Guard Academy with a bachelor's in operations research.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	23
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

USCGA also has a doctoral program available in operations research. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Mechanical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Marine Engineering

Careers That Operations Research Grads May Go Into

A degree in operations research can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CT, the home state for United States Coast Guard Academy.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
Operations Research Analysts	1,240	$90,230
Natural Sciences Managers	650	$179,200

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 USCG Public Affairs photograph of United States Coast Guard under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.