Operations Management at Northern Illinois University

If you are interested in studying operations management, you may want to check out the program at Northern Illinois University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

NIU is located in Dekalb, Illinois and has a total student population of 16,769. In 2021, 100 maintenance management majors received their bachelor's degree from NIU.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Operations Management section at the bottom of this page.

NIU Operations Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Maintenance Management

NIU Operations Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the maintenance management progam at NIU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The maintenance management major at NIU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Operations Management. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	9
	12
	15
	16
	28
	28
	33
	40
	40

Maintenance Management Student Demographics at NIU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the maintenance management majors at Northern Illinois University.

NIU Operations Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 100 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in maintenance management from NIU in 2021, 74% were men and 26% were women.

About 61% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in maintenance management at NIU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% more racial-ethnic minorities in its maintenance management bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northern Illinois University with a bachelor's in maintenance management.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	18
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	14
White	61
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

NIU also has a doctoral program available in maintenance management. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• General Business Administration and Management

Careers That Maintenance Management Grads May Go Into

A degree in maintenance management can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Northern Illinois University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Production and Operating Worker Supervisors	24,520	$62,380
Computer and Information Systems Managers	17,770	$143,900
Mechanic, and Repairer Supervisors	14,520	$69,300
Construction Managers	12,730	$95,020
Industrial Production Managers	10,620	$104,540

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Andy McMurray under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.