Industrial Engineering (MS)

Graduate studies in Industrial Engineering enable students with industrial engineering bachelor’s degrees to enhance their undergraduate training with studies in special fields such as production planning, inventory control, scheduling, and industrial economics. However, the department also offers a broader master’s program for engineers whose undergraduate training is not in industrial engineering. Students may complete the studies on a full-time (12 points per term) or part-time basis.

Industrial Engineers are required to satisfy a core program of graduate courses in production management, probability theory, statistics, simulation, and operations research. Students with B.S. degrees in industrial engineering will usually have satisfied this core in their undergraduate programs. All students must take at least 18 points of graduate work in industrial engineering and at least 30 points of graduate studies at Columbia. 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 ieor.columbia.edu.

Approved IEOR Elective List

CSOR W4231ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS I
CSOR W4246ALGORITHMS FOR DATA SCIENCE
IEME E4200HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN AND INNOVATION
IEOR E4008COMPUTATION DISCRETE OPT
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 E4520APPLIED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
IEOR E4521SYSTEM ENGI TOOLS/METHODS
IEOR E4523DATA ANALYTICS
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 E4540DATA MINING
IEOR E4544Statistical Methods for Analytics
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 E4731CREDIT RISK/CREDIT DERIVATIVES
IEOR E4573TOPICS IN OR
IEOR E4733ALGORITHMIC TRADING
IEOR E4734FOR EXCH/RELATD DERIVATVS INST
IEOR E4735Structured and 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
ORCS E4529Reinforcement Learning