Master’s Program
build your degree to meet your needs
With the help of our academic and master’s peer advisors, you can build your degree program to meet your needs.
Unlike the majority of other graduate programs, University of Michigan Industrial and Operations Engineering (U-M IOE) master’s students have no required sequences. Choose courses from other top-ranked U-M departments, schools, and colleges to create unique and highly-employable degrees.
Launch your career with skills in operations research, ergonomics and human factors, data science, risk analysis and public policy, machine learning and statistics.
$103k
Average salary of
U-M IOE master’s
graduates (2021-2022)
#2
Ranked Industrial Engineering Graduate Program by the U.S. News & World Report (2023)
32%
Female students
MAKE IT YOUR OWN
Our master’s students gain lifelong skills to launch their careers and are highly multidisciplinary.
A master’s degree from U-M IOE enables students from quantitative disciplines, including engineering, science, economics, mathematics, and statistics, to align their interests to one or more focus areas or to personalize the selection of classes and projects from other departments, to match individual interests and career goals.
Find career opportunities in a wide range of areas, U-M IOE master’s graduates become academic and industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and undertake cutting-edge work in fields like energy, consulting, finance, health, manufacturing, robotics and business analytics.
Our graduates work at top universities all over the world and are employed by companies and organizations like Amazon, Apple, Accenture, Google, General Motors, LLamasoft, Mayo Clinic and NASA.
FINE TUNE YOUR FUTURE WITH A MASTER’S