Expand your career horizons with a graduate degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering. We equip our students with advanced knowledge and skills in analytics, systems engineering, and decision analysis to make meaningful contributions in industry and academia. Explore our graduate degree options below, noting that accelerated B.S./M.S. and B.S./M.B.A. options are found among our Undergraduate Programs.
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The M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering Thesis Option is a 30 credit hour program that features fundamental courses in statistics, system modeling, and systems engineering subjects with elective coursework options available for specialization in various domains of industrial and systems engineering, preparing students with advanced knowledge to design and improve complex processes and systems across industries. The program involves collaboration with a faculty member on developing a substantial research project culminating in a thesis. The M.S. thesis option is especially appropriate for students interested in entering a doctoral program.
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The M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering Non-Thesis Option is a 30 credit hour program that features fundamental courses in statistics, system modeling, and systems engineering subjects with elective coursework options available for specialization in various domains of industrial and systems engineering, preparing students with advanced knowledge to design and improve complex processes and systems across industries. The program requires only coursework and culminates in subject examinations selected by students in their area of topical interest.
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The M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering Online Option is a 30 credit hour, exclusively coursework-driven program that prepares students to tackle real-world challenges in manufacturing, business, and operations by designing and evaluating systems that enhance productivity, efficiency, and quality. Students learn to optimize every element of processes and systems, including people, equipment, materials, logistics, quality control, and processes, to deliver high-impact results.
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The Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering enables students to advance the frontiers of knowledge through independent research and scholarship spanning operations research, human factors, advanced manufacturing, and data analytics, developing the quantitative and analytical expertise needed to solve complex engineering challenges. The program involves collaboration with world-class faculty to address over-the-horizon problems through theory, methodology, and application innovations.
“As a Ph.D. student whose home was thousands of miles away, I found a second home at OU. In the OU School of ISE, I found a community that supported me throughout my Ph.D. journey. Through student organizations across campus, I built friendships and connected with people from all around the world. OU gave me much more than a degree: it gave me a community, a sense of belonging, and it even turned me into a football fan. Boomer Sooner!”
Deniz Emre, Ph.D., 2025
Assistant Teaching Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia
"I came to the OU School of ISE thinking a Ph.D. was about research inside a lab, but it turned out to be about much more than that. I had professors who trusted me to pursue the questions that mattered to me and a school that wanted me to enrich its scholarly environment through teaching, research, and service. I arrived to earn a degree. I left ready to lead a research group and a classroom of my own."
Himadri Sen Gupta, Ph.D., 2025
Assistant Professor, Colorado State University Pueblo
