Operations Research is a new management major, and its English name is Operations Research. This major mainly studies how to get the best management decision or strategy through the analysis of various data of daily operation of enterprises. Therefore, operational research is closely related to mathematics, applied mathematics, enterprise information management, enterprise management, statistics, computer and other disciplines. Today, Tiandao Studying in Bian Xiao will give you a comprehensive introduction to American study majors.

First of all, operational research belongs to one of the 422 STEM majors. Because operational research is considered as a branch of applied mathematics, and because statistics and other disciplines overlap. Because operational research solves all practical decision-making problems, it is a highly applied subject. Graduates majoring in operational research will enter major companies to engage in data statistics and decision-making and other related work, or work in management consulting companies and other units.

As operational research belongs to science, both undergraduate and graduate applicants must have strong mathematical and physical abilities and excellent background. Undergraduate applicants, the mathematics scores of SAT or ACT must be higher than the average, and it is best to provide the scores of SAT2 mathematics or AP calculus, AP statistics and other disciplines. For graduate students, it is best to major in mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics and other related majors. If you have practical experience, the possibility of being admitted will greatly increase.

So which universities in the United States rank higher in operational research? Here, teachers studying in Tiandao recommend two rankings, one is QS ranking and the other is American news ranking.

According to the ranking of statistics and operational research of QS University, the ranking of famous American schools offering operational research is as follows:

1 MIT

Stanford University

3 Harvard University

University of California at Berkeley

5 Georgia Institute of Technology

Carnegie Mellon University

7 University of Michigan

8 Princeton University

University of Washington

10 UCLA

1 1 Columbia University

12 Cornell university

13 University of Pennsylvania

14 University of Chicago

15 Duke University

16 University of Wisconsin-Madison

17 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

18 Johns Hopkins university

19 Purdue University

20 Yale University

2 1 Texas A&M university

22 University of Texas at Austin

23 new york University

Northwest University

Pennsylvania State University

University of Minnesota

According to the 20 17 American news ranking, the following schools are among the best in the United States in operational research:

1 MIT

University of Pennsylvania (Wharton Business School)

Carnegie Mellon University

4 University of Michigan at ann arbor

5 Stanford University

6 Purdue University

7 Northwest University

8 Columbia University

9 Harvard University

10 Ohio state university

1 1 Michigan State University

You can choose your favorite school according to the above rankings.

I hope all students who are interested in studying operations research in the United States can study abroad smoothly!