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2023 Best Value Operations Research Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$37,865 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$45,988 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Operations Research School for You

In 2020-2021, 368 degrees and certificates were awarded to operations research students who went to a California college or university. This makes it the #147 most popular major in the state.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Operations Research Schools in California to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in California to see which ones offered the best value programs for operations research students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Operations Research Schools in California

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for operations research majors pursuing a .

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality in Operations Research

$14,226 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of California - Berkeley the best value school in California for operations research students. UC Berkeley is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Berkeley.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UC Berkeley are $14,226 a year.

UC Berkeley also made our Best Operations Research Schools in California list, coming in at #3.

Read full report on Operations Research at University of California - Berkeley

$61,503 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at University of Southern California helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best operations research schools in California. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

USC undergraduate students pay an average of $61,503 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

USC also claimed a spot on our Best Operations Research Schools in California list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

Read full report on Operations Research at University of Southern California

Best Value Operations Research Colleges in the Far Western US Region

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Operations Research is one of 40 different types of programs to choose from.

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Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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