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.