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.
INDUSTRIES & OCCUPATIONS
Aerospace industry
Analytics
Automation
Automobile industry
Business consulting
Corporate or nonprofit management
Data Science
Finance
Healthcare operations
Industrial methods
Law
Manufacturing
Medical supply manufacturing
Medicine
Public administration/government
Quality control
Safety and ergonomics
Scientific research
Semiconductor/electronics industry
Telecommunications industry
Transportation
COMPANIES
Accenture
AECOM
Amazon
Apple
Bauer Controls
Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Detroit Lions
Ernst & Young
FedEx
FordGeneral Motors
Goldman-Sachs
Google
Llamasoft
Manhattan Associates, Inc.
Mayo Clinic
Oshkosh Corporation
Tesla Motors
The MITRE Corporation
United States Postal Service
SALARIES
Discover the value of a master’s degree!
On average, U-M graduates with a master’s degree in an engineering field can earn 15-25% more than those with a bachelor’s degree in engineering.
The Engineering Career Resource Center (ECRC) collects a variety of employment data from current students and new graduates.
Use the links below to research average salaries based on a U-M engineering master’s degree, experience level, and desired work location.
- Industrial Production Managers
- Medical and Health Services Managers
- Purchasing Managers
- Quality Control Systems Managers
- Supply Chain Managers
- Financial Quantitative Analysts
- Logistics Analysts
- Logistics Engineers
- Management Analysts
- Risk Management Specialists
- Occupational Health and Safety Specialists
- Biostatisticians
- Data Warehousing Specialists
- Database Administrators
- Database Architects
- Information Technology Project Managers
- Operations Research Analysts
- Industrial Engineers
$108k
Average salary of
U-M IOE master’s
graduates (2022-2023)
#2
Ranked Industrial Engineering Graduate Program by the U.S. News & World Report (2025)
43%
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