2025 Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

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 looked at 9 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 527 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 account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different 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 the Rocky Mountains Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Master's in Management Science

1

Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, UT

23 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods has to check out Brigham Young University - Provo. Located in the midsize city of Provo, BYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Brigham Young University - Provo

2

University of Denver
Denver, CO

88 Annual Graduates

$100,676 Median Starting Salary

It is difficult to beat University of Denver if you wish to pursue a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. DU is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Denver.

Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods master's degree recipients from University of Denver earn a boost of around $12,314 over the typical income of management sciences & quantitative methods majors.

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

3

Colorado State University - Fort Collins
Fort Collins, CO

14 Annual Graduates

Colorado State University - Fort Collins is a great choice for students pursuing a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. Located in the medium-sized city of Fort Collins, Colorado State is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Colorado State University - Fort Collins

4

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

85 Annual Graduates

$90,201 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat University of Utah if you wish to pursue a master's degree in management sciences & quantitative methods. Located in the city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Master's students who receive their degree from the management science program earn about $90,201 for their early career.

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

5

Utah State University
Logan, UT

14 Annual Graduates

USU is a fairly large public university located in the city of Logan.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Utah State University

6

University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO

93 Annual Graduates

$78,807 Median Starting Salary

Located in the city of Boulder, CU - Boulder is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Students who graduate with their master's from the management science program report average early career wages of $78,807.

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

7

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus
Denver, CO

129 Annual Graduates

CU Anschutz is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Denver.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus

8

The University of Montana
Missoula, MT

16 Annual Graduates

UM is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Missoula.More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from The University of Montana

9

Colorado State University - Global Campus
Aurora, CO

57 Annual Graduates

$83,765 Median Starting Salary

Colorado State University - Global Campus is a moderately-sized public university located in the city of Aurora.

Soon after graduation, management science master's recipients typically make an average of $83,765 in the first five years of their career.

More information about a master’s in management sciences & quantitative methods from Colorado State University - Global Campus

Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Colleges by State

Explore the best management sciences & quantitative methods colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Colorado	185	308
Utah	164	188
Montana	90	12

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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	332
Business Statistics	112
Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods	83

Majors Similar to Management Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	8,228
Accounting	1,367
Management Information Systems	774
Human Resource Management	620
General Business/Commerce	258
Finance & Financial Management	188
Marketing	114
Real Estate	89
Entrepreneurial Studies	52
Taxation	50

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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