Multidisciplinary engineering that drives change.
The University of Michigan’s in-person, master’s in Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) program offers a human-centered approach to solving complex engineering challenges. Designed for students from diverse quantitative backgrounds, the program emphasizes data analytics, optimization, statistics and human factors, preparing graduates to excel in a wide range of industries such as healthcare, finance, technology and manufacturing.
#2
Ranked Industrial Engineering Graduate Program by the U.S. News & World Report (2025)
$108K
Average salary of U-M IOE master’s graduates in their first position post-graduation (2023)
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING (MS/MSE)
Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) master’s
Our residential U-M IOE master’s program lets you customize your degree to your unique interests by allowing courses from other top-ranked U-M colleges and departments to broaden your engineering background.
Whether you’re collaborating with medical teams, optimizing business operations, developing exoskeletons or creating complex algorithms, our program equips you to think systematically, solve complex problems and contribute impactful solutions to your chosen field.
FORMAT: In person
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Program areas
A master’s degree in IOE enables students from all quantitative disciplines, including engineering, science, economics, mathematics and statistics, to align their interests to one or more program areas to match individual their career goals. View all areas.
Business operations engineering
Learn about analytical approaches to production, storage and distribution of goods and services from sources to customers.
Data analytics & applied statistics
Learn the essential methods used to translate raw data into informed decisions for a wide range of industry applications.
Financial engineering
Discover the tools of quantitative finance and financial technology used across a wide range of companies.
Healthcare & human safety
Learn to harness data from electronic health records and use technologies like wearable sensors to improve health and safety decision-making.
Human systems integration
Learn to analyze and support the critical role humans play in optimizing performance, health and safety in a wide range of systems.
Operations research & analytics
Discover how to use techniques in math, statistics and computation to build data-driven models fundamental to decision-making in many contexts.
Occupational safety engineering and ergonomics
Develop and manage safe and healthy environments for workers by engineering solutions to minimize injuries and hazards.
Quality control & reliability engineering
Develop the skills to cope with uncertainty and variations in the design and operation of all types of engineering systems.
Student organizations
Go beyond your education and get involved with other students and faculty making significant impact in their field of choice.
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
- Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS)
- View all graduate student orgs.
Accelerated master’s program
Students already pursuing an undergradaute engineering degree at U-M may be qualify for our SUGS program, which allows you to get your master’s with just one additional year of study.
“After gaining me degree I spent eight years at McKinsey and Co. serving clients on the topics of AI, data science and growth marketing. Im now at Google Cloud Consulting where I have continued to help clients solve problems, overcome challenges and tackle problems in AI implementation.”
Eva Dong
U-M IOE master’s alumna
