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Industrial Engineering & Operations
Making systems efficient: production, operations research, quality and engineering management.
Who it suits
CIE
- Organiser: structure, data, precision
- Thinker: analysing, researching, figuring out why
- Persuader: leading, selling, starting things
Students here tend to be a bit more organised than average.
Builds on
Mathematics ●●●Economics & business ●●Physics ●●
Typically offers
High salary · Job security · Working with technology
Where it leads
Industrial engineer · Operations manager · Supply chain analyst · Consultant
US median earnings, one year after a bachelor’s
$65,557
College Scorecard, US Department of Education
1,325 programmes tracked
🇩🇪 Germany 524🇺🇸 United States 496🇫🇷 France 198🇦🇺 Australia 37🇦🇹 Austria 27🇫🇮 Finland 23🇨🇭 Switzerland 20
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