Industrial Engineering (MS)

Graduate studies in Industrial Engineering is for students who want to enhance their training in special fields, such as scheduling, production planning, inventory control, and industrial economics. Students may complete the studies on a full time (12 points per term) or part time basis for a total of 30 STEM credits. Students may start in the Fall or Spring.

Industrial Engineers are required to satisfy a core program of graduate courses in production management, probability theory, statistics, simulation, and operations research.

All students must take at least 18 points of graduate work in Industrial Engineering and at least 30 points total of graduate studies at Columbia.

Industrial Engineering:

Required Core Courses (12 credits)

IEOR E4150INTRO-PROBABILITY ＆ STATISTICS (For Fall Admits)
or STAT GU4001 INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
IEOR E4004OPTIMIZATION MODELS AND METHODS
IEOR E4106STOCHASTIC MODELS
IEOR E4108SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS
IEOR E4199MSIEOR Quantitative Bootcamp (0 credits)

Approved IEOR Elective List (18 credits)

Approved IEOR Elective List
Refer to IEOR website for list of approved topics titles and sections
CSOR W4231ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS I
CSOR W4246ALGORITHMS FOR DATA SCIENCE
EEOR E6616CONVEX OPTIMIZATION
IEME E4200HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN AND INNOVATION
IEOR E4008COMPUTATION DISCRETE OPT
IEOR E4010Artificial Intelligence for OR and FE
IEOR E4011Agentic AI for Operations Research and Financial Engineering
IEOR E4207HUMAN FACTORS: PERFORMANCE
IEOR E4402Corporate Finance, Accounting ＆ Investment Banking
or IEOR E4403 QUANTITATIVE CORPORATE FINANCE
IEOR E4404SIMULATION
IEOR E4405PRODUCTION SCHEDULING
IEOR E4407GAME THEOR MODELS OF OPERATION
IEOR E4418TRANSPORTATION ANALYTICS ＆ LOGISTICS
IEOR E4500APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMNG FOR FE
IEOR E4501TOOLS FOR ANALYTICS
IEOR E4505OPERATION RES IN PUBLIC POLICY
IEOR E4506DESIGN DIGITAL OPERATING MODELS
IEOR E4507HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS MGT
IEOR E4510PROJECT MANAGEMENT
IEOR E4511Industry Projects in Analytics ＆ Operations Research
IEOR E4520APPLIED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
IEOR E4521SYSTEM ENGI TOOLS/METHODS
IEOR E4523Data Analytics and Machine Learning
IEOR E4525MACHINE LEARNING FE ＆ OPR
IEOR E4526ANALYTICS ON THE CLOUD
IEOR E4530TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
IEOR E4532Visualization and Storytelling with Data
IEOR E4533Performance, Objectives, ＆ Results Using Data Analytics
IEOR E4534Applied Analytics: from Data to Decisions
IEOR E4535Analytics Engineering
IEOR E4540DATA MINING
IEOR E4544Statistical Methods for Analytics
IEOR E4564From Analytics To Action
IEOR E4570TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
IEOR E4571TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
IEOR E4572TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
IEOR E4573TOPICS IN OR
IEOR E4574TOPICS IN OR
IEOR E4575TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
IEOR E4576TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
IEOR E4577TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
IEOR E4578TOPICS IN OPERATION RESEARCH
IEOR E4579TOPICS IN OR
IEOR E4601DYNAMIC PRICING/REVENUE MGMT
IEOR E4602QUANTITATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT
IEOR E4620PRICING MODELS FOR FIN ENGIN
IEOR E4630ASSET ALLOCATION
IEOR E4650BUSINESS ANALYTICS
IEOR E4700INTRO TO FINANCIAL ENGINEERING
IEOR E4704Foundations of Financial Technology
IEOR E4711GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKETS
IEOR E4718INTRO-IMPLIED VOLATILITY SMILE
IEOR E4720TOPICS IN QUANT FINANCE
IEOR E4721TOPICS IN QUANT FINANCE
IEOR E4722TOPICS IN QUANT FINANCE
IEOR E4723TOPICS IN QUANTATIVE FINANCE
IEOR E4724TOPICS IN QUANTATIVE FINANCE
IEOR E4725Topics in Quantitative Finance: Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equation
IEOR E4726TOPICS IN QUANTATIVE FINANCE
IEOR E4727TOPICS IN QUANTATIVE FINANCE
IEOR E4728TOPICS IN QUANTITATIVE FINANCE
IEOR E4729TOPICS IN QUANTATIVE FINANCE
IEOR E4731CREDIT RISK/CREDIT DERIVATIVES
IEOR E4732COMPUT METHODS IN FINANCE
IEOR E4733ALGORITHMIC TRADING
IEOR E4734FOR EXCH/RELATD DERIVATVS INST
IEOR E4735STRUCTURED＆HYBRID PRODUCTS
IEOR E4737AI Applications in Finance
IEOR E4741Programming for Financial Engineering
IEOR E4742Deep Learning for OR and FE
IEOR E4745Applied Financial Risk Management
IEOR E4900MASTERS RESEARCH OR PROJECT
IEOR E4998MANAG TECH INNOV ＆ ENTREPRENEURSHIP
IEOR E4999FIELDWORK
IEOR E6711STOCHASTIC MODELING I
IEOR E6614OPTIMIZATION II
IEOR E6712STOCHASTIC MODELING II
IEOR E6613Optimization, I
IEOR E8100ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
ORCS E4200Data-driven Decision Modeling
ORCS E4201Policy for Privacy Technologies
ORCS E4529Reinforcement Learning
ORCS E6529Advanced Reinforcement Learning
Additional Approved Electives
APMA E4200PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
COMS W4705NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
COMS W4775Causal Inference
ECON GU4415GAME THEORY
ECON GU4860BEHAVIORAL FINANCE
MATH GU4061INTRO MODERN ANALYSIS I
MATH GU5010
MATH GU5450
MATH GU6151
STAT GU4243ADVANCED DATA SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
STAT GU4224BAYESIAN STATISTICS
Pre-approved Columbia Business School (CBS) Elective Courses
Course Codes may include DROMBxxxx, MRKTBxxxx, MGMTBxxxx, ACCTBxxxx or FINCBxxxx. Please refer to the MSIE website for pre-approved CBS listings. Courses not listed below must be pre-approved by IEOR advising prior to the add/drop date of the semester.
Please note: Programming courses from CBS are not approved.
Pre-approved CBS electives:
ACCT B8029
BUEC B8211
BUEC B8216
BUEC B8498
DROM B8103Business Analytics II Half Term
DROM B8106Operations Strategy
DROM B8107Service Operations Management
DROM B8116Risk Management
DROM B8117
DROM B8131Sports Analytics
DROM B8159
DROM B8510MANAGERIAL NEGOTIATIONS
FINC B8307Advanced Corporate Finance
FINC B8325
FINC B8331
FINC B9325
MGMT B8518
MGMT B8577
MRKT B8604
MRKT B8607
MRKT B8609
MRKT B8632
MRKT B8636
MRKT B8662
MRKT B8663
MRKT B8679
or MRKT B8680

Industrial Engineering may include concentrations in:

  1. Healthcare Management;

  2. Regulated Industries; and

  3. Systems Engineering.

Additional details regarding these concentrations and electives are available in the Departmental office and on the IEOR website at https://ieor.columbia.edu/msie-curriculum.