Operations Research at United States Naval Academy

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

Annapolis is located in Annapolis, Maryland and approximately 4,594 students attend the school each year.

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.

Annapolis Operations Research Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Operations Research

Annapolis Operations Research Rankings

The operations research major at Annapolis 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.

Operations Research Student Demographics at Annapolis

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

Annapolis Operations Research Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 59% of operations research bachelor's degrees went to men and 41% went to women. The typical operations research bachelor's degree program is made up of only 40% women. So female students are more repesented at Annapolis since its program graduates 1% more women than average.

About 58% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in operations research at Annapolis are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 18% 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 Naval Academy with a bachelor's in operations research.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	12
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	44
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Concentrations Within Operations Research

If you plan to be a operations research major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from United States Naval Academy. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Operations Research	70

Related Majors

• Nuclear Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• General 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 MD, the home state for United States Naval Academy.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Operations Research Analysts	4,300	$99,870
Natural Sciences Managers	3,370	$148,310

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 WPPilot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.