<p>Any suggestions for schools to look at that have good operations research/systems engineering programs?</p>
<p>Georgia Tech, UC Berkeley, and Stanford all have top class programs in industrial engineering and operations research (or systems engineering for GTech), which is kind of what you're looking for.</p>
<p>Berkeley also has a specific major dedicated to operations research called "Operations Research and Management Science".</p>
<p>CP lists CMU, Syracuse University, Cornell, Columbia, Princeton, UCB, and University of Illinois.</p>
<p>MIT does, too -- S met a prof who did her grad work in OR there.</p>
<p>I'll add my own school: George Mason University. But, as an OR practitioner, I should tell you that this is a niche department even at schools that have an OR major. My MS in OR came from George Washington University, which does not have an OR department any more. </p>
<p>So, the supply of OR degreed professionals is low and the demand is high. You do the math!</p>
<p>I remember my girlfriend mentioning a OR program at Penn State as being a grad program, not sure if they have it for undergrad or not, though.</p>
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<p>I assume she was in the Operations Research Center, a division that is open only to grad students.</p>
<p>MIT</a> Operations Research Center (ORC)</p>
<p>But that shouldn't scare any undergrads off, as the ORC is part of the MIT Sloan School of Management. Hence, undergrads who want to study OR would just get a degree in management from Sloan.</p>
<p>The guy that actually founded that department was Philip Morse, an author of quite a number of grad-level textbooks in physics, as well. He actually described OR as one of the best ways to apply early physics ideas and methods to real world problems (and, I suppose, still not being called an engineer :p).</p>
<p>The US Air Force Academy also offers a degree in OR. Maybe the other service academies do too.</p>