Industrial engineering, Operations Research etc.

[User10]

Hi all,

I would like to ask you a simple question about a few universities. Some of you might know a lot about these universities and some of you are probably students there right now.

So, I was wondering: Do the following universities have some master programs similar to Industrial Engineering, Operations Research etc. I know that all of their programs can be found on their webpages but I have already checked. It's my feeling that these two programs and other similar programs have different names between universities. So, I just wanted to know if anyone out there knew more about this than I do. Here are the universities:

UCLA

UCSB

UCSD

Thanks.

[efh0888]

I don't think so. Stanford or Berkeley would be your best bets in CA.

[arcturus]

Hi,

I can only talk about UCLA, because that's where I just graduated from. UCLA has an excellent EE program, and they have very good researchers in some areas of operations research like convex optimization (Vandenberghe), control systems (Tabuada), game theory (van der Schaar). It also has a fantastic Math and Stats department, ranked really high (and also extremely hard to get into) where I am sure you will get professors doing operations research.

I am myself also looking at applying to a PhD program in convex optimization/operations research, but UCLA is out of my league because I screwed up my GPA while doing my MS there (3.48/4). They are very strict about it, and if you are below 3.5, it's highly unlikely that you will get in.

UCSB has an excellent signal processing program, and though they seem totally different, I think the math in the two fields (sig proc and operations research) is quite similar, so do look into that too!

All the best!

[jake tyler]

hi,

 

i have ms in industrial engg,with gpa of 3.5/4,one publication,decent reccomendation,quant 780,verbal 720,where should i apply for phd

 

so that i surely get

 

thanks

[efh0888]

jake, "so that i surely get" - impossible!