Undergraduate
Gain skills at the intersection of analytics, business, and engineering
Join the #5 Best Undergraduate Industrial Engineering Program
Industrial and operations engineers seek to describe, predict and optimize the performance of complex societal systems. We use analytics, data science and human systems integration to have a positive societal impact for the common good.
Our graduates are highly multi-disciplinary and find career opportunities in a wide range of pursuits including engineering, business consulting, management, entrepreneurship and more.
#5
Undergraduate Industrial Engineering program in U.S. News & World Report (2024)
$85k
Average entry-level salary of U-M IOE bachelor’s graduates (2021-2022)
98%
Of our students achieved their desired career outcome within 6 months of graduation.
WHERE CAN AN INDUSTRIAL AND OPERATIONS ENGINEERING DEGREE TAKE YOU?
FEATURED STORIES
On November 3, 2023, the University of Michigan Industrial and Operations Department hosted its inaugural Undergraduate Research Symposium to highlight undergraduate success in research. This event was deemed a success with over 100 attendees and 16 poster presentations from students.
Alonzo Wilson graduated from the University of Michigan in 2013 with a BSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering. He started his career working at Goldman Sachs and now works as a Project Controls Specialist for a commercial construction company in Kalamazoo, Mich. And if that isn’t enough Wilson is now running for a seat in the Kalamazoo City Commision.
Students from multiple disciplines at U-M came together to create an interface that will change air traffic control management for decades to come.
This award recognizes the outstanding contributions and dedication exhibited by the faculty from Michigan’s 15 public universities who had a significant impact on undergraduate learning through activities such as instruction, research, experiential learning, and mentoring.
Oluwakemi Johnson speaks about her experience as a Posse Foundation Scholarship recipient, a University of Michigan IOE DEI Committee member, and how she found her way to the U-M IOE degree program.
Elinoa discusses the numerous activities she participates in on campus, and why she chose IOE as a major with a computer science minor.
GET YOUR MASTER’S IN ONE YEAR
The Rackham Sequential Undergraduate/Graduate Studies (SUGS) program allows current U-M students to complete an undergraduate and Master’s degree in five years.
