IEOR bachelor or master degree?

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<p>what is the difference between a bachelor degree and a master degree in IEOR?</p>

<p>Should I get it as a bachelor degree or get it as a master?</p>

<p>Thx a lot.</p>

2

<p>Either one,</p>

3

<p>I would think if you can get it as a masters, that it’s the best option.</p>

4

<p>but should i waste time to get it as a bachelors if i can get it as a masters in the future?</p>

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<p>Depends, depends, depends.</p>

<p>Depends on the school(s) you attend for IEOR. Depends on the school’s expertise research areas. Some IE schools have more of a Operations Research slant than others. Some have more of a Systems Engineering slant. Some IE programs have more of a manufacturing slant.</p>

<p>Some graduate IE programs will require quite a few IE undergrad courses to be taken first. Some graduate IE programs (especially if Systems Engineering) will ask for just a solid Math/CS/Stats background. If I were to generalize the average grad program in IEOR, you would have to take:</p>

<ul>
<li>Linear Programming course</li>
<li>Probability/Statistics course</li>
<li>Project Management or Engineering Management course</li>
<li>Information Systems course</li>
<li>Engineering Economics/Cost Estimation course</li>
</ul>

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<p>Do both. I was in a Masters of Engineering in Operations Research degree with a mix of classmates. Some had no Operations Research background and basicly took similair classes to those I took as an undergrad ORIE major. I was the TA for their intro optimization class. Those of us with the ORIE background took more advanced courses. </p>

<p>For the MS I had a friend who was a PHD student with a math degree but no OR as an undergrand (taking the same classes a MS student would take). After taking optimization he did not know how to solve a linear program (but know convexity theory really well). I lent him my undergrad optimization book so that he could learn the mechanics of the simplex method.</p>

<p>You can do the masters with no ORIE background, but if you are really interested in the subject I would recommend starting as an undergrad.</p>