Doctor of Philosophy [Ph.D] [Operations Research] From Rutgers University - New Jersey

This program is offered by the Department of Management Science and Information Systems (MSIS). It is the continuation of the previous concentration in Management Science and the program of Operations Research offered by the Rutgers Center for Operations Research (RUTCOR).

Primary areas of interest are applied statistics, optimization, business analytics, operations management, inventory theory, scheduling, manufacturing under uncertainty, queuing theory, and risk theory.

Faculty research interests range from methodology research to quantitative modeling to empirical studies. The MSIS department includes a number of world-renowned scholars. Many faculty members serve on editorial boards of major academic journals, have chaired at premier conferences in operations and management science and have been members of NSF panels and other advisory boards. Research by the MSIS faculty is widely published in books and leading journals.

The students should have solid college-level knowledge of linear algebra, analysis, and probability, and good programming skills. Students who aspire to doctoral study in Operations Research but need to strengthen their background may wish to consider our Master of Information Technology and Analytics program, which admits both part-time and full-time students. Students in this program take many of the same courses as our doctoral students in Operations Research and may use these courses towards their doctoral degree if they are later admitted to the doctoral program.