Welcome to UC Berkeley’s Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department. At Berkeley IEOR, we expand the frontiers of optimization, stochastics and data science enabling transformative decision analytics and technologies to solve grand challenges in transportation, supply chains, healthcare, energy, robotics, finance and risk management.

Closing the Gender Gap in Engineering

The IEOR department is excited to announce that the majority of IEOR students self-identify as women or non-binary.

B.S.
57%
women

M.Analytics
55%
women

M.Eng.
50%
Women

M.S.
50%
women

Ph.D.
48%
women

What is IEOR?

In this award-winning video, IEOR students explain what industrial engineering & operations research is, how their skills can improve the world, and discuss exciting careers in IEOR.

Inventing and designing to analyze and improve complex systems
Improving processes for a better world
Utilizing math and statistics to understand and quantify
Leveraging computing to manage information
Informing business strategy and operations for better decision-making, saving time and resources