Prospective Graduate Students
We are a highly ranked program in the southeastern part of the United States and we are located in a beautiful, safe, and affordable college town less than a two hour drive from Atlanta, Georgia. The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) has been granting degrees since 1931 and has over 4,000 living alumni. All degree programs are ranked within the top 25% nationally. Both Masters and PhD degrees are offered and are accredited. Auburn University is recognized as a leading large public institution with emphasis in engineering, business and agriculture. Its library is ranked among the top nationally. The department has about 160 graduate students, with about 60 of those being PhD students. Recent graduate students have been employed by companies such as Intel, Delta Airlines, General Motors, Honda, Accenture, Harris, Siemens, Hyundai and NASA and by universities such as Penn State, Old Dominion University, University of Louisville and University of San Diego.
Look at these links for more information about the ISE graduate department, the Graduate School, and the city of Auburn and surrounding area:
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/programs/insy/programs/grad/index.html
If you are an international student, look here for additional information:
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/international/future_students.php
Many (probably one-half) of our students do not have industrial engineering undergraduate degrees. We have students from other engineering disciplines such as mechanical engineering, as well as students from other technical/science programs such as math degrees. This topic is addressed under “required background” on our website. If students need a few undergraduate classes to bring them up to speed in areas such as operations research, they can take them along with other graduate courses that they do have background for.
In general, applicants must have a current (within 3 years) GRE and the TOEFL/IELTS (for international students). Minimum TOEFL/IELTS score is 79/6.5. We don’t have a minimum published requirement for the GRE. The application fee is $70.00 US. Official transcripts from all institutions of higher education must be provided. A minimum GPA score of 2.75 is expected, but higher GPAs are better. We do not need letters of recommendation. Applications are taken year round and students can begin taking classes in Fall or Spring semester. Summer semester isn’t recommended as a good time to start.
We do offer teaching or research assistantships to highly-sought after students when possible. This consists basically of a monthly stipend starting at $630.00 (can be more) and a tuition waiver (student only pays about $1200 fees per semester).
