ORMS Educational Programs

• Programs in the U.S.
• Programs outside the U.S.

Welcome!

This site contains links to educational programs in Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

• Although we try to include every program that we find out about, we do not claim that the lists are complete.
• Listings are separated based on whether the institution is inside or outside the U.S.
• Three versions of U.S. list are available: sorted by institution name, by state, or by type of program; Two versions of the list of programs outside the U.S. are available: sorted by institution name and sorted by country.

This page gives further information about this site and where the listings come from. To begin looking at the lists immediately, use the text menu above.

About the Listings

Our goal is to list any program that offers a good environment for students to study one or more OR/MS areas. This typically requires a degree program in an OR/MS field, a significant track in an ORMS related area, or several professors engaged in active research in OR/MS.

If you're looking for an introduction to OR/MS, you might want to try the the INFORMS OR/MS Resource Collection site (especially J. E. Beasley's OR-Notes), the INFORMS Career FAQ's, or just check to see if your local university or college offers any introductory courses.

For the listings by type of program, programs are classified as being based in "business" or "engineering/mathematics/computer science". We recognize that this categorization is not always easy (some programs are cross-listed), but we feel that these listings may be helpful for some people.

Rankings

Our objective in this section is to provide rankings of OR programs / Universities in the U.S. and abroad based on different criteria.

• Ranking of Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering Programs compiled by the National Research Council. The National Research Council assessed programs according to 21 different criteria. Five major indices were developed to summarize those criteria.
• Ranking of Universities based on contributions to the INFORMS Practice Literature. This ranking was published in Interfaces in 2007. As the title indicates, the ranking focuses on Universities as opposed to particular OR/MS Programs. In fact, some of the Universities in the ranking do not have OR/MS Programs.

History and Acknowledgments

This site was created in February 2001 for the INFORMS Student Union, and is based on an earlier site created by the INFORMS Education Committee. The original lists of programs came largely from that site. Some additional programs were found through Michael Trick's Operations Research Page. Since that time, numerous individuals have emailed additions and updates. Thanks to all of you.