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Graduate Programs

Means to an Advantageous End

Make your mark in highly ranked graduate programs at a top-tier research university with engineers internationally known for their work with large-scale complex systems.

Earn an MS in systems engineering, industrial engineering or engineering management, or a PhD in systems and industrial engineering. Master’s degrees and graduate certificates are also available online.

Improve production and process design, traffic control and border security systems, space monitoring, patient care and energy distribution. SIE graduate students are designing autonomous surveillance systems, connected vehicle technology and a cyberinfrastructure for space traffic.

Consider the University of Arizona Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering for your graduate studies!

Apply Now

Questions about applying or enrolling? Contact our advisors at graduateadvisor@sie.arizona.edu or check for the next SIE Grad Programs Virtual Open House session.

  • Highly ranked programs
  • 10 distinct graduate tracks
  • Funding options throughout degree lifecycle
  • Online MS and graduate certificates
  • Flexible interdisciplinary curriculum
  • Individualized experience
  • World-renowned faculty
  • High-profile research and valuable internships
  • Ideal location in an industrial and technological hot spot

Research for a Smart World

The following focus areas represent SIE research on large-scale, complex systems:

  • Smart transportation and manufacturing logistics
  • Space, defense and security
  • Data analytics, informatics and machine learning
  • Human factors and social systems
  • Energy, water, environment and sustainability
  • Optimization
  • Health care systems

Software Engineering

MS and PhD degrees are available in Software Engineering. Visit the website for more information.

Why UA Systems & Industrial Engineering?

Student in the Spotlight

To Bennu and Back

Daniel Wibben, who spent his undergraduate and graduate years as a member of the team planning the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission, is working for an Arizona-based company to help steer the spacecraft to the asteroid Bennu and back.

"Once we get to Bennu, we're going to be ready, agile and on our toes for whatever Bennu throws at us."
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Rankings

Top 25

systems and industrial engineering schools
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$ 3.2 M

annual research expenditures (2023)

Top 25

online engineering grad program - public universities
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