2025 Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Master's Degree Schools in Texas

If you pursue a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #4 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

College Factual reviewed 12 schools in Texas to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of management sciences & quantitative methods. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 2,557 master's degrees in management sciences & quantitative methods during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of management sciences & quantitative methods for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on management sciences & quantitative methods students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other management sciences & quantitative methods students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for management sciences & quantitative methods to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized management sciences & quantitative methods related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for management sciences & quantitative methods students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Master's Degree Schools in Texas list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods in Texas

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for management sciences & quantitative methods students seeking a a master's degree.

10 Top Texas Schools for a Master's in Management Science

1

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

193 Annual Graduates

$96,749 Median Starting Salary

Every student who is interested in a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods needs to take a look at The University of Texas at Austin. UT Austin is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Austin.

Master's recipients from the management sciences & quantitative methods major at The University of Texas at Austin make $3,318 above the typical college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from The University of Texas at Austin

2

Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX

30 Annual Graduates

$124,605 Median Starting Salary

Every student who is interested in a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods needs to look into Texas A&M University - College Station. Texas A&M College Station is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of College Station.

Those management sciences & quantitative methods students who get their master's degree from Texas A&M University - College Station make $31,174 more than the average management science grad.

More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Texas A&M University - College Station

3

Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX

36 Annual Graduates

Texas Christian University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. TCU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Fort Worth.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Texas Christian University

4

The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX

383 Annual Graduates

$88,049 Median Starting Salary

The University of Texas at Dallas is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. UT Dallas is a very large public university located in the city of Richardson.

Students who graduate with their master's from the management science program state that they receive average early career wages of $88,049.

More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from The University of Texas at Dallas

5

University of Houston
Houston, TX

43 Annual Graduates

UH is a very large public university located in the city of Houston.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from University of Houston

6

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX

690 Annual Graduates

$87,906 Median Starting Salary

SMU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Dallas.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the management science program make about $87,906 in the first couple years of their career.

More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Southern Methodist University

7

The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX

141 Annual Graduates

UT Arlington is a fairly large public university located in the city of Arlington.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from The University of Texas at Arlington

8

Texas State University
San Marcos, TX

48 Annual Graduates

Texas State is a very large public university located in the small city of San Marcos.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Texas State University

9

University of North Texas
Denton, TX

299 Annual Graduates

$82,568 Median Starting Salary

UNT is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Denton.

Students who graduate with their master's from the management science program report average early career wages of $82,568.

More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from University of North Texas

10

Dallas Baptist University
Dallas, TX

12 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Dallas, DBU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Dallas Baptist University

Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Schools in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Arizona	180	820
Oklahoma	153	93
New Mexico	114	1

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Rankings in Majors Related to Management Science

Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods is one of 21 different types of Business, Management & Marketing programs to choose from.

Management Science Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Management Science	1,333
Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods	1,033
Business Statistics	187
Actuarial Science	4

Majors Similar to Management Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	9,024
Accounting	2,062
Human Resource Management	443
General Business/Commerce	368
Finance & Financial Management	178
Marketing	137
Hospitality Management	104
Taxation	86
Real Estate	81
Construction Management	53

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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).
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