Breaking Rules to Solve Problems

Our Academic Offerings

The School of Operations Research and Information Engineering maintains a leading international reputation resting on core expertise in optimization, probability and statistics. The high quality of ORIE students and faculty ensure that Cornell will retain its preeminence in the world of operations research.

Earn your B.S. in Operations Research and Engineering

Undergraduate Program

A four-year course of study culminating in a Bachelor of Science degree from the College of Engineering.

B.S. in Operations Research and Engineering

Graduate Programs

Professional Track:
Our Master of Engineering program is a full-time, professionally-oriented program that builds on traditional math, scientific, and engineering skills and concentrates on the application of these skills to practical problems. The M.Eng. degree requires the completion of an engineering design project in lieu of a research thesis.

Teaching / Research Track:
Our Ph.D. program is a rigorous and academically-demanding program that involves independent investigation of open problems with the purpose of creating original scholarly work of the highest caliber. Doctoral graduates are prepared for academic teaching and research positions and placement in the private sector.

Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Ithaca

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Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) at Cornell Tech

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Ithaca

Pamela Badian-Pessot Ph.D. '20

Pamela Badian-Pessot’s parents met while they were earning graduate degrees at Stanford University. It may be because of this that Badian-Pessot thought of graduate school the way many people think of... Read more

Andrew Daw Ph.D. '20

Andrew is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering where he is advised by Jamol Pender. His research interests are in applied probability and... Read more

Research Areas in ORIE

Algorithms

Data Mining

Financial Engineering

Information Technology Modeling

Optimization

Supply Chain

Research Areas

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Davis, Delimitrou, DiStasio win Sloan fellowships

February 12, 2020

Assistant professors Damek Davis, Christina Delimitrou and Robert A. DiStasio Jr. have won 2020 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Read more about Davis, Delimitrou, DiStasio win Sloan fellowships

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Event

Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:15pm

ORIE Colloquium: Rupert Freeman (Microsoft) - Human Compatible: Making Decisions from Human Knowledge and Preferences

Even in the age of big data and machine learning, human knowledge and preferences still play a large part in decision making. For some tasks, such as predicting complex events like recessions or... Read more about ORIE Colloquium: Rupert Freeman (Microsoft) - Human Compatible: Making Decisions from Human Knowledge and Preferences

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Andrew Daw Ph.D. '20

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