SUMMARY
Majoring in Operations Management and Supervision is not only a valuable choice, but usually an essential first step for undergraduates seeking to begin a career as a chief operating officer, an operations executive, or a foreign operations specialist. Interestingly, operations management and supervision is fairly popular ranking as the 98th most popular degree. Last academic year, there were 3,880 operations management and supervision diplomas received. In-state tuition for operations management and supervision at private colleges is, on average, 3.1 times more spendy than their public rivals.
With just 122 universities having programs for operations management and supervision there might be limited options as to the institutions that will have an option for you. If you are hoping to surround yourself with other operations management and supervision majors, consider colleges in Kansas which have the most students admitted to operations management and supervision annually. Zooming out, the best region to pursue operations management and supervision is in the Great Lakes region with University of Cincinnati-Main Campus, Ohio State University-Main Campus, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee best representing the region. Interestingly, our selection of the best conference to major in operations management and supervision is the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association with Fort Hays State University, University of Nebraska at Kearney, and Northeastern State University representing the conference. That said, our selection for the best university for operations management and supervision is Boston College. You might also want to check out our list of the best colleges.
The overall best school is not necessarily the best school for you. There might be a bunch of angels to weigh when choosing school. Stuff like campus amenities, transportation services, and food would definitely alter your thoughts on where to go to college. Here at Authority, we examined the pros and cons for you. If, as an example, you are interested in which operations management and supervision college is home to the top campus, the winner is University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. If, for example, you are very interested in which school has the top campus, then we have a whole list dedicated to that. We have carefully pored through student reviews, government databases, professor reviews, and more in order to compare every U.S. major in an unbiased and informative way. Here you can find our well researched list for the universities with the best student life and our pick for the college with the best student life for operations management and supervision is Boston College. Are you curious why? Continue scrolling to discover more about our top choices. Some of our decisions just might surprise you.
If price is a primary deciding factor in your decisions, you might consider avoiding Boston College. Boston College appears to be our most expensive university for operations management and supervision, at least for out of state attendance. We do have an entire list of the most expensive universities that might put the cost at Boston College into perspective. You may also be interested to know that operations management and supervision is the 299th most expensive program in America, with an average bill of $23,900. On a broader scale, the most costly state for operations management and supervision nationally is Massachusetts at Boston College, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, and University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth - the main schools in the state - of $56,780, $29,578, and $29,578. To zoom out even further, the most expensive region for operations management and supervision is the New England region which is best demonstrated with Boston College with a cost of $56,780, Wentworth Institute of Technology with a cost of $34,970, and Southern New Hampshire University with a cost of $30,756.
Our cheapest region for operations management and supervision is the Southeast region which is represented by University of Arkansas-Fort Smith with a cost of $11,376, University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a cost of $17,246, and Remington College-Heathrow Campus with a cost of $12,768. On the bright side, the most affordable university for operations management and supervision is Northern Illinois University. Authority.org's entire list of the most affordable colleges can be explored here.
In-state learners can expect to pay about $9,900 for a degree in operations management and supervision. That price swells dramatically to a median of $21,100 for an out-of-state public-school student. As such, you might be interested in our pick for the school representing the best value for operations management and supervision: Boston College. Here you will find our comprehensive list about the schools we see as being the best value overall. Do know, this section is predicated on being an out-of-state student. The value proposition changes when in-state tuition costs are considered, as such, we are using out-of-state tuition as the baseline.
Earnings for operations management and supervision students can cover a wide range, but two years after graduation students will often make around $69,100. There is much variation in salary; top earners can experience pay up to $120,300. Straight out of school, the lowest earning opportunities within the operations management and supervision space make $40,000, which could be worse. The highest earning grads for operations management and supervision have come from Boston College and if you are looking for colleges with all of the highest earning graduates, we have that too.
The overall diversity of operations management and supervision ranks decent, coming within the 55th percentile of all programs. The college with the highest composite diversity for operations management and supervision is Southwestern College and here you can find our general list for the universities which have the most diversity. The financial diversity of Operations Management and Supervision is only in the 92nd percentile compared to all other majors. Racial diversity is even lower in the 49th percentile. White undergraduates compose the largest share, 61%, of those studying operations management and supervision. Additionally, 60% of students pursuing an operations management and supervision major are men.
The median ranking for operations management and supervision professors is 3.6 stars, a score that is 10% less than the average across all majors; this is a subpar score. If you are looking for the most popular operations management and supervision instructor nationally, look no further than Cenzig Haksever at Rider University. This might be surprising, but the top rated operations management and supervision professors from student rankings are at Arizona State University-Tempe. As we including data other than just rankings it becomes clear that the university with the best professors for operations management and supervision is University of Delaware. One will find more detail on our evolving ranking methodology for the best overall professors here, along with some of the best instructors in the U.S.
Finally, the hardest university to get into for operations management and supervision is Boston College. While we are unsure why you would be interested, we have a comprehensive list of the hardest colleges to get into. That being said, here at Authority we do hope you believe that considering university from examples primarily informed by superlatives might cause problems. We at Authority hope you read our more focused pages on different colleges and explore a couple of our helpful background pages on beneficial things to think about as your college search continues.