Operations Research Ph.D. Programs

Stanford University

• At Stanford University, the Department of Management Science and Engineering offers a Ph.D program in OR. It has taken two related areas, "Modeling and Optimization" and "Probability and Stochastic Systems" and combined them into one Ph.D program. Prospective students must choose optimization, operations research or stochastics as their major of choice when applying.

  Management Science and Engineering
  Stanford University
  380 Panama Way
  Stanford, CA 94305-4026
  650-724-7000
  stanford.edu

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• MIT has a well-reputed Ph.D. program that is offered in its Operations Research Center. The Center is actually a collection of faculty members from eight different departments in various schools. Doctoral candidates are expected to "contribute to advanced research and state-of-the-art knowledge in a selected field," according to the OR Center.

  MIT Operations Research Center
  77 Massachusetts Avenue
  Room E40-149
  Cambridge , MA 02139
  617-253-3601
  mit.edu

Georgia Institute of Technology

• Georgia Tech's School of Industrial and Systems Engineering has a very strong Ph.D. program, with a unique feature in that it offers six different concentrations for each prospective candidate to choose from. The fields of concentration in OR are: optimization, stochastic systems, supply chain engineering, economic decision analysis, applied statistics and concentration in algorithms, combinatorics, and optimization.

  Operations Research
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  765 Ferst Drive, NW
  Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0205
  404-894-2300