About the Master of Engineering in Operations Research and Information Engineering Degree
Cornell Tech’s ORIE Masters combines Cornell University’s academic rigor with the energy and opportunity that come with studying in the heart of New York’s tech start-up community. Led by faculty who are actively shaping the future of Big Data, you’ll master the intricacies of business analytics, optimal decision-making and machine learning.
In parallel with your academic technical courses, you will also complete Studio courses—an essential component of every Cornell Tech program. These courses focus on preparing you for innovation within major tech companies or entrepreneurship within startup ventures. In cross-disciplinary teams, you’ll work with business, law, and other Cornell Tech students to create your own startup as well as develop usable solutions for real corporations. In the process, you’ll develop the business savvy and communication skills—as well as peerless technical know-how—that have made previous graduates prime recruiting targets of companies like Google, Facebook, and numerous startups.
ORIE students have the option of studying one of two vectors. The students must take four courses from the list under the corresponding vector below:
Data Science
- Applied Machine Learning
- Optimization Methods
- Learning and Decision Making
- Data Science in the Wild
- Digital Marketing
- Natural Language Processing
Operations Analytics
- Optimization Methods
- Modeling Under Uncertainty
- Digital Marketing
- Service and Online Markets
- E-Logistics
- Health Tech, Data, and Systems