- Three programs at two schools. 1 bachelor’s, 2 master’s.
- One bachelor’s rate is on record: $11,678 a year. The University of Texas at Austin reports it to IPEDS.
- Out-of-state undergraduates pay $31,100 extra per year at the University of Texas at Austin. It is the one public university here with a bachelor’s.
- Supply chain managers’ BLS occupation: median $102,720. Middle half $80,000 to $148,270; nationally $107,230.
- What stands out most: operations analytics. The strongest is 1,600 operations research analysts, a location quotient of 1.77.
- 27 online programs take Texas residents. Among local programs, St. Edward's University lists an online format.
The metro
The Census Bureau defines the Austin metro as the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metropolitan statistical area: five counties, three central and two outlying. Every Austin figure here for jobs, pay and industry covers that whole area.
- Principal cities
- Austin, Georgetown, Round Rock and San Marcos
- Central counties
- Hays County, Travis County and Williamson County
- Outlying counties
- Bastrop County and Caldwell County
Census Bureau CBSA delineation, July 2023. Schools are placed in the metro by their county.
Programs
Austin has three accredited supply chain programs, at the University of Texas at Austin and St. Edward's University. By level, Austin has one bachelor’s and two master’s. In Austin, the University of Texas at Austin lists the most, two.
Ranked 24 of 147 bachelor’s programs
Supply Chain Management Major (BBA)
Austin, TX
- On campus
- AACSB-accredited business school
More about this program
Supply chain management at McCombs centers on how data analysis and efficient systems operations create value for an organization, according to the school. You learn to make changes to a company's supply chain, connect shifts in strategy to financial results, apply current data methods, and build the quantitative skills to use them well. The major suits students who like developing strategies and solving problems through research and analytics. Graduates go on to roles such as business and planning analyst, consultant, global procurement services analyst, logistics analyst, operations associate, and procurement specialist, spanning industries well beyond manufacturing alone.
Not ranked
Master of Business Administration (MBA, On Campus/Online), Global Business and Supply Chain Management concentration
Austin, TX
- MBA concentration
- On campus
- Online
- AACSB-accredited business school
More about this program
Three courses from a concentration in global business and supply chain management fill out a 36-credit MBA. You pick three of four options: global business management, global logistics and supply chain, global purchasing and sourcing, and a decision support models course. The core has nine courses and ends with a capstone consulting project. Classes can be taken 100% online, with the option to visit campus once per seven-week course, usually on a Saturday, and the school says you can finish in as few as 12 to 24 months. Applications are accepted for fall, spring and summer terms. GMAT and GRE scores are optional. The school describes the concentration as a broad, strategic view of managing the production, shipment and distribution of goods and services in a global economy.
Not ranked
Supply Chain & Operations Management (Full-Time MBA concentration)
Austin, TX
- MBA concentration
- On campus
- STEM-designated
- AACSB-accredited business school
More about this program
Four electives sit at the center of the supply chain and operations management concentration in the full-time MBA at Texas McCombs, and the school lists 16 total credit hours for it. Two of those four courses must carry the OM prefix, and the list includes supply chain management, supply chain analytics and service operations management. A practicum lets you work on real business problems with industrial partners of the University of Texas Supply Chain Consortium. The school says the concentration prepares you for roles such as supply chain analyst, logistics manager or operations consultant. Program cost for the Class of 2027 is $110,392 for Texas residents and $122,428 for non-residents across two years, covering tuition and registration fees. Completing the core plus two custom core classes meets the school's Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods STEM designation requirement.
Each card is read from the school’s own program page. The rank is the program’s place in this site’s national ranking of its kind; the highlighted lines compare it with the other verified programs in Austin. A card marked “Not ranked” has no national rank to show: two were found in this site’s crawl of AACSB-accredited schools’ own program pages, and AACSB’s supply chain list, which the national rankings are built from, doesn’t name them.
Residency
The one public university with a bachelor’s in Austin is the University of Texas at Austin. At that campus in Austin, a Texas resident pays less than a nonresident.
At the University of Texas at Austin, in Austin, residents pay $11,678 a year and nonresidents $42,778.
Undergraduate tuition and fees by residency at Austin schools | School | Resident | Nonresident | Difference |
| The University of Texas at Austin Public, TX · undergraduate, per year | $11,678 | $42,778 | $31,100 |
Tuition and required fees for a full-time undergraduate, 2023-24, as each school reports them to IPEDS, via College Navigator: The University of Texas at Austin. Each school name links to its program page. Who counts as a resident is each school’s rule, set out on its own residency page.
Economy
County Business Patterns counts 33,129 transportation and warehousing jobs at 1,275 employers in the Austin metro for 2023, and 44,928 more in wholesale trade.
Against the national mix, Austin stands out for operations analytics. Austin’s location quotient: 1.77 for operations research analysts.
Supply chain occupations in the Austin metro by concentration | Occupation | Jobs | Location Quotient |
| Operations Research Analysts | 1,600 | 1.77 |
| Purchasing Managers | 930 | 1.32 |
| Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers Counts supply chain managers | 1,980 | 1.07 |
| Buyers and Purchasing Agents | 4,340 | 1.06 |
| Compliance Officers Counts customs brokers | 3,670 | 1.06 |
| Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks | 2,900 | 0.89 |
| Logisticians | 1,720 | 0.82 |
| Industrial Production Managers | 1,430 | 0.7 |
| Cargo and Freight Agents | 310 | 0.38 |
BLS OEWS May 2025. A location quotient of 1.0 means the occupation’s share of local jobs equals its national share; 1.5 means half again as many.
County Business Patterns 2023. Share is each line’s part of all transportation and warehousing jobs; ratio is the local share over the U.S. share. Not published: withheld by the Census Bureau to protect individual employers.
How this guide decides what a metro stands out forShow the rules
- Air cargo: air transportation holds at least twice its national share of the metro’s transportation and warehousing jobs, and at least 10,000 jobs.
- Port and water freight: water transportation holds at least twice its national share of the metro’s transportation and warehousing jobs, and at least 1,000 jobs.
- Warehousing: warehousing and storage holds at least 1.4 times its national share of the metro’s transportation and warehousing jobs, and at least 5,000 jobs.
- Parcel and courier hubs: couriers and delivery holds at least 1.5 times its national share of the metro’s transportation and warehousing jobs, and at least 5,000 jobs.
- Trucking: trucking holds at least 1.5 times its national share of the metro’s transportation and warehousing jobs, and at least 5,000 jobs.
- Distribution management: transportation, storage and distribution managers have a location quotient of 1.4 or more.
- Purchasing: purchasing managers have a location quotient of 1.4 or more.
- Operations analytics: operations research analysts have a location quotient of 1.5 or more.
- Manufacturing: industrial production managers have a location quotient of 1.5 or more.
- Freight brokerage and forwarding: cargo and freight agents have a location quotient of 1.5 or more.
Online
27 online programs say an Austin resident can enroll, on the school’s own authorization page. For Austin, none of them names Texas as closed. Closer to home, St. Edward's University lists an online format among the Austin programs above.
Online supply chain programs that state they enroll Texas residents | School | Level | Credits | Enrolls From |
| American Public University West Virginia · Online Master of Arts in Supply Chain Management (MA) | Master’s | 36 | Every state |
| Boston University Massachusetts · Online Master of Science in Supply Chain Management (MSSCM), Metropolitan College | Master’s | 32 | Every state |
| Florida International University Florida · Online Master of Science in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (MSLSCM) | Master’s | 30 | Every state |
| Georgia College & State University Georgia · Online Master of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (MLSCM) | Master’s | 30 | Every state |
| Georgia Southern University Georgia · M.S. in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (MS-LSCM) | Master’s | 30 | Every state |
| Middle Tennessee State University Tennessee · Supply Chain Management, M.S. | Master’s | 33 | Closed in CA, MA |
| Portland State University Oregon · Master of Science in Global Supply Chain Management (MSGSCM) | Master’s | Not published | Every state |
| The Ohio State University Ohio · Master of Supply Chain Management (MSCM) | Master’s | 33 | Every state |
| The Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania · Master of Supply Chain Management (MSCM) | Master’s | 30 | Every state |
| University of Alabama in Huntsville Alabama · Master of Science in Supply Chain Management | Master’s | 30 | Every state |
| University of Arkansas Arkansas · Master of Science in Supply Chain Management | Master’s | 30 | Every state |
| University of Colorado at Boulder Colorado · MS Supply Chain Analytics - Online (Master of Science in Supply Chain Analytics) | Master’s | 33 | Every state |
| University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nebraska · M.S. in Supply Chain Management (online Master of Science in Supply Chain Management) | Master’s | 30 | Every state |
| University of North Carolina Wilmington North Carolina · Supply Chain Management, M.S. (Master of Science in Supply Chain Management, MS SCM) | Master’s | 30 | Every state |
| University of Oklahoma Oklahoma · Online MS in Supply Chain Management (catalog: Supply Chain Management (Online), M.S.) | Master’s | 32 | Every state |
| University of San Diego California · Master of Science in Supply Chain Management (MSSCM) | Master’s | 33 | Closed in AL, AR, DC, GA, IA, KY, MN, MS, NJ, NC, ND, RI, WI |
| University of Tennessee, Knoxville Tennessee · Online Master’s Degree in Supply Chain Management (MS SCM); Master of Science in Supply Chain Management | Master’s | 30 | Every state |
| American Public University West Virginia · Online Bachelor of Arts in Supply Chain Management (BA) | Bachelor’s | 120 | Every state |
| Appalachian State University North Carolina · Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) in Supply Chain Management | Bachelor’s | 120 | Closed in CA |
| Arizona State University Arizona · Supply Chain Management, BS | Bachelor’s | 120 | Every state |
| Ball State University Indiana · Bachelor's Degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (Online) | Bachelor’s | 120 | Every state |
| East Texas A&M University Texas · Supply Chain Management (BBA) | Bachelor’s | 120 | Closed in MA |
| Florida International University Florida · Bachelor of Business Administration in Logistics and Supply Chain Management | Bachelor’s | 120 | Every state |
| Oregon State University Oregon · Supply Chain & Logistics Management | Bachelor’s | 180 | Every state |
| Portland State University Oregon · Bachelor of Science in Business Administration: Global Supply Chain Management | Bachelor’s | 180 | Every state |
| Purdue University Global Indiana · Bachelor of Science in Applied Supply Chain Management | Bachelor’s | 180 | Every state |
| Utah Valley University Utah · Operations and Supply Chain Management, B.S. | Bachelor’s | 120 | Every state |
Each school’s own state-authorization page, read 2026-09-24. The table lists the programs whose page says who can enroll; “Every state” is the school’s own statement and “Closed in” lists the states it names. The rest are in the online degree ranking. Authorization changes, so confirm with the school before you apply.
How to become
- 1
Pick The Level That Fits Where You Start
Austin offers one bachelor’s and two master’s. The University of Texas at Austin has the lowest in-state rate for a bachelor’s in Austin, $11,678 a year.
- 2
Keep Working While You Study
In Austin, St. Edward's University lists an online format. Beyond Austin, 27 online programs state they enroll Texas residents.
- 3
Know The Local Pay Ladder Before You Negotiate
Logisticians in Austin run from $49,430 at the 10th percentile to $129,360 at the 90th, with the median at $78,460.
- 4
Aim At The Roles Austin Concentrates
Operations research analysts are Austin’s most concentrated supply chain occupation: 1.77 times the national share, median $88,190 in Austin.
Cost
The University of Texas at Austin reports $11,678 a year in tuition and fees for an Austin bachelor’s. Austin sits at 98.1 on BEA’s 2024 price index (U.S. = 100).
Pay
BLS counts Austin’s supply chain managers among transportation, storage and distribution managers; in Austin their median is $102,720, against $107,230 nationally. Austin logisticians earn $78,460 at the median, and the middle half of them $63,670 to $102,370.
One of the nine occupations below pay more in Austin than nationally. At Austin’s prices, the logistician median is worth $80,007 in national terms.
Supply chain pay in the Austin metro by percentile | Occupation | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | U.S. Median |
| Purchasing Managers 930 jobs | $95,020 | $111,140 | $140,820 | $175,330 | $225,340 | $148,080 |
| Industrial Production Managers 1,430 jobs | $80,650 | $97,310 | $129,390 | $168,060 | $211,630 | $126,060 |
| Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers Counts supply chain managers · 1,980 jobs | $66,090 | $80,000 | $102,720 | $148,270 | $187,940 | $107,230 |
| Operations Research Analysts 1,600 jobs | $63,800 | $77,820 | $88,190 | $109,440 | $137,380 | $88,940 |
| Logisticians 1,720 jobs | $49,430 | $63,670 | $78,460 | $102,370 | $129,360 | $82,320 |
| Buyers and Purchasing Agents 4,340 jobs | $50,670 | $61,570 | $77,150 | $97,240 | $122,370 | $77,710 |
| Compliance Officers Counts customs brokers · 3,670 jobs | $47,610 | $57,380 | $70,720 | $92,120 | $119,530 | $80,730 |
| Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks 2,900 jobs | $31,870 | $40,560 | $52,300 | $69,960 | $90,690 | $59,650 |
| Cargo and Freight Agents 310 jobs | $39,460 | $46,550 | $49,860 | $62,900 | $73,100 | $52,260 |
BLS OEWS May 2025, metropolitan area estimates: annual wages at the 10th, 25th, 50th (median), 75th and 90th percentiles. BLS publishes no separate wage for supply chain managers. They are counted inside transportation, storage and distribution managers, and every figure here is for that whole occupation.
Questions
Which Schools In Austin Offer A Supply Chain Management Degree?
The University of Texas at Austin and St. Edward's University: three accredited programs in Austin.
How Much More Do Out-Of-State Students Pay In Austin?
A nonresident undergraduate in Austin pays $31,100 more a year at the University of Texas at Austin, per the IPEDS report of each Austin school.
What Do Supply Chain Managers Earn In Austin?
BLS counts them among transportation, storage and distribution managers, whose Austin median is $102,720; the top tenth earn over $187,940.
What Kind Of Supply Chain Economy Does Austin Have?
By the thresholds on this page, Austin stands out for operations analytics.
Can You Study Supply Chain Management Online From Austin?
27 online programs say an Austin resident can enroll, on the school’s own authorization page. For Austin, none of them names Texas as closed. Closer to home, St. Edward's University lists an online format among the Austin programs above.
Other city guides in Texas | City | Programs | Manager Median |
| Dallas-Fort Worth Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | 5 | $104,790 |
| Houston Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX | 6 | $105,420 |
| McAllen McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX | 1 | $78,420 |
Every accredited program in Texas, with statewide pay and job growth.
All 64 metros with an accredited program, searchable.
ASCM and ISM credentials: who may sit each exam and what it costs.
Every verified online program, with tuition and campus visits.
National, state and metro pay for the managers’ occupation.
National, state and metro pay for logisticians.
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