Production / Operations

Ranked in 2013, part of Best Business Schools

Production and operations management involves lessons in supply chain management, quality control, and manufacturing. Graduates may become managers or consultants. These are the top business schools for production/operations MBAs.

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Rank School name Tuition Enrollment (full-time) Additional data
#1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)

Cambridge, MA

$57,920 per year (full-time) 816

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#2 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)

Pittsburgh, PA

$55,800 per year (full-time) 418
#2 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

Philadelphia, PA

$57,026 per year (full-time) 1,685
#4 Stanford University

Stanford, CA

$57,300 per year (full-time) 803
#5 University of Michigan​‒​Ann Arbor (Ross)

Ann Arbor, MI

$50,000 per year (in-state, full-time); $55,000 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 992
#6 Northwestern University (Kellogg)

Evanston, IL

$56,550 per year (full-time) 1,161
#7 Purdue University​‒​West Lafayette (Krannert)

West Lafayette, IN

$22,316 per year (in-state, full-time); $42,082 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 241
#8 Columbia University

New York, NY

$58,384 per year (full-time) 1,274
#9 Harvard University

Boston, MA

$53,500 per year (full-time) 1,824
#10 Indiana University​‒​Bloomington (Kelley)

Bloomington, IN

$24,478 per year (in-state, full-time); $43,460 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 398
#11 University of Texas​‒​Austin (McCombs)

Austin, TX

$33,926 per year (in-state, full-time); $48,832 per year (out-of-state, full-time) 504