Hi, I made to LBS MiM Program this year (class of 2015). I however chose not to accept the offer, but would like to share some of my experiences regarding the selection process:

Step 1 : Take your GRE/GMAT ASAP. I took GRE and 320+ score (out of 340) is considered good enough. I believe on GMAT that would be approx. 700/800. It is advised that you have great extra-curricular and academic record.

Step 2: Application:

1. Application Essay: This is really important. This is the chance to show admissions committee who you are and why are you interested in this program. I am an Engineer who had done some courses in management and had couple of internships (including one in consulting). So for me it was pretty straightforward. Be sure to explain your career goals succinctly and show how LBS fits into your career goals and aspirations.
2. Recommendations: I simply cannot stress enough the importance of this! It really helps if you have professionals from well-known companies, vouch for you. Its equally important to be from a good university (which adds to your credibility). Do note that one of your references must come from a professor, which means that you might want to take up a course in finance and score really well.

Step 3 : LBS Adcom takes approx. 3 weeks to get to an interview decision. If you sail past this, you would be asked to fly to London (if you live in a EU country). OR You will be interviewed by a member of admissions committee in your country OR You will be interviewed by an Alumnus from your home country. The questions in the interview are random and as far as I know no one got the same questions. They are largely dependent on your essays and career goals. Often the interview might turn into a conversation with the next question depending on how you answer the current question.

Now let me answer your question regarding the profile.

LBS is looking for those people who have graduated recently and wish to start a career in business. So, its better to have some points in your profile which reflect your interest in business. So do an internship, take few courses in your university, participate in business related activities and have some understanding of financial markets. LBS is also looking for high-achievers so you really need to have excelled in atleast one thing such as academics, sports, music etc. Your GRE score matters as well. LBS welcomes people from diverse backgrounds such as Arts, Science, Music, Law and Engineering, so your background is not a disadvantage at all; your interest in business matters the most to them. Last but not the least, LBS also expects students to be able to afford the expenses, which are anywhere $70k - $80k an year, which is frankly too much, given that its just a one-year program. However, for some, the experience might be worth it, so weigh in your priorities. Good Luck!

Duke.

But then I'm not impartial being an alumni of the Duke MEM program. While I don't know much about the Cornell program, a close friend went to the MS&E program at Stanford at about the same time I went to Duke. While both programs offer excellent education and Stanford has the unique advantage of being close to the valley, upon comparing notes, I think I got more out of Duke.

I say that because the MEM program at Duke literally pushes its students into team building activities and into interdisciplinary collaboration. For example, my primary project (which morphed into a non-profit startup), was to build a portable colposcope for cervical cancer prevention in the developing world. I worked with two product designers, a finance specialist, and a gynecologist to make it happen.

The sense I get from other engineering management program - and this is only a subjective anecdotal observation - is that you're expected to complete your coursework and then you're left alone. The Duke MEM on the other hand is very very social, a bit like MBA programs. From the all pervading campout to poker nights that are actually funded by the department, Duke will push you to be more social - not an easy skill for some engineers, but a rewarding one nevertheless.

As someone who was accepted into Cornell College of Engineering with the lowest GPA out of all who applied my year from my high school, I think I can offer a bit of insight into this. I would like to clarify that my GPA was by no means an outlier—it wasn't incredibly low relative to everyone else's, it just happened to be the lowest. It is also worth noting that my high school is a bit of unicorn and is usually treated as such during college admissions; Cornell typically has a high propensity to admit from my school, admitting tens of students every year. Even considering the unicorn effect, patterns and trends in admissions should still be somewhat consistent throughout all high schools so hopefully there will be some useful information for you in this answer but make sure to digest everything with a slight grain of salt.

I have listed the factors in order of effectiveness and importance. The first one is the most helpful/important and the last one is the least.

1. Apply ED.

If your end all be all is really to be admitted to Cornell Engineering and to attend Cornell Engineering, you should most certainly should be applying Early Decision (ED). Early Decision is a huge commitment to make for a school but and is a lot to ask from an applicant but as such it also rewards the applicant to the same degree. Your chances of being admitted Early Decision are much greater than they are in Regular Decision both statistically and logically.

Statistically, Early Decision admission rates are around ~35% for the university as a whole and perhaps around ~25–30% for the College of Engineering (varies by year); this is in comparison to the 18% admissions rate for the College of Engineering for Regular Decision in 2016. Your chances are nearly doubled for Early Decision.

Source(Early Decision statistics were hard to find so I settled for a CC thread):

Class of '16 by the Numbers

What is the ED Acceptance rate for College of Engineering?

Logically, Cornell has much more incentive to admit applicants that they know will accept and attend as opposed to applicants who are just exploring their options. The advantage of ED is so great that I can say with a moderate amount of certainty that I would not have been admitted had I not applied Early Decision. And this is not to say that I think of myself as dumb, but my application may have been one that was on the fence and Early Decision may have just been the edge I needed.

2. Be strong in science and mathematics.

The bottom line is that at Cornell Engineering, or any engineering school, as an engineer-in-learning you will be working with a lot of math and a lot of science and so you will be expected to have a strong background in both subjects. There are several ways to demonstrate that your maths and your sciences are top notch but perhaps the most important way is through your GPA/grades. Your GPA in math and science courses, specifically, are very important. This is not to say that your entire GPA can be overlooked because there certainly does exist some sort of overall GPA cutoff. However, a short of amazing GPA can definitely be supplemented with the fact that your math and science GPAs are very high and that your weaker grades are in other subjects. This is generally the trend for admitted students from my school, most of whom have their highest grades in math and/or science, and was also the case for me personally.

The second most important way to demonstrate proficiency in math and science is through your course load. Even if you have a rather high math and science GPA it means close to nothing if you've taken the bare minimum courses for those subjects offered by your school. An A- in Multivariate Calculus is more impressive than an A+ in Basic Geometry. If your school offers it, you should front load your course load with as many challenging math and science courses as possible (AP courses are generally really good for this). If your school is limited in its offerings, there may be ways outside of school to buildup impressive course work; you could finish all of the math/science courses at your school then ask to take classes at a nearby community college, etc. I was extremely lucky to go to a high school that offers courses up to Differential Equations in math but even then there were some students who prematurely completed every course before senior year and had to go to a nearby university to take higher level math courses; some of them currently attend Cornell Engineering.

The third way of showcasing proficiency is through exams. Cornell requires you to take the SAT or the ACT, an SAT Subject Test in any level of mathematics, and an SAT Subject Test in a science.

Source:

http://admissions.cornell.edu/sites/admissions.cornell.edu/files/2017%20Freshman%20Requirements.pdf

Scoring well on math and science related subject tests as well as the math component of the regular SAT is incredibly important. There are a lot of variables that may have affected an applicant's GPA throughout time in high school but a single-sitting test does not fall victim to these variables. Doing well on these exams can really show the admissions staff that you are at the top of your game when it comes to math and science and it gives them an easy way to judge how comparatively good you are at the national scale since percentiles are published every year for standardized tests. I received full scores in the Physics, Math II subject tests and in the math component of the SAT. I was lucky with my testing but absolutely do not fret if you don’t receive full marks; just try your best to do well!

Lastly, participating in math/science related extracurriculars can really demonstrate your commitment and interest in the fields. Things like being a part of the math team/club, the robotics team/club, science olympiad, and competing in science competitions like Intel would all be great additions to your Cornell Engineering application.

3. Have a strong application overall

I sort of already covered things like tests and grades in the previous section so it makes sense to now talk about the other parts of the application now. Tests and GPA are the objective metrics of your application and although it is very important to have an objectively strong application, you also want to make sure your subjective metrics are strong as well. A lot of this advice is generalized for applying to any college, but given that you have already fulfilled the Cornell Engineering specific advice, optimizing these factors too will really make you a candidate to watch out for. Make sure you write strong essays. Both your Common App and your Cornell specific essays should be works that you're proud of. The admissions staff go through plenty of strong APPLICATIONS—ones will near perfect grades, top 1% test scores, etc—but they rarely will encounter strong STORIES and NARRATIVES. It is through writing that you will be able to transform your application into a narrative of your entire high school/adolescent experience instead of just having it be a pretty showcase of numbers and marks. Write about things you're passionate about. Read your essays 100 times, have someone else read it and then read it yourself again. Proofread your essay at least 10x more times than I've proofread this Quora answer. At the end of the day it is a human being making the decision of whether or not you should be admitted and this person goes through an incredible number of applications every day. Sometimes just having a great story and being subjectively convincing could be the deciding factor in making that admissions person think, "Wow, this kid's got it."

4. Interview well (optional)

I labelled this section as optional advice since you most certainly are not required to have an interview and having a poor interview can't explicitly hurt you (I think). However as someone who likes to chat and talk, I had a pretty strong interview which I thought really helped me out in the end. I made a good case for why I wanted to be at Cornell Engineering specifically and what I planned on accomplishing there. Again, this section is totally ignorable but just in case you have an interview lined up, make sure you sell yourself well since having ANOTHER positive signal in your application can only help you.

5. Good luck!

A part of college admissions is also just being lucky. You never know exactly how your application will be received on the other side and so you should just put forth your bestest of efforts and hope for the bestest. There is no secret algorithm or combination of qualifications to guarantee your admissions, since, as I mentioned earlier, it is a person reading your application so there is always a grey area of subjectivity. I wish you the best of luck; I really do hope everything goes well for you :)! Hope you found something useful in my answer!

As with most competitive programs, Stanford's MS&E program seeks success as well as diversity. An incomming class will typically be composed of a mix of professional and academic, with a wide variety of complimenting skills. In both cases they are looking for past success, future potential, authenticity (or equivalently, passion), and leadership. The latter is important -- every year Stanford (etc) turns away a handful of folks that are perfect on paper but with admission essay's that say something to the effect of here's why I'm great, but fails to be convincing about the 'here's what I care about and am going to do', as well as 'here's who I am'.

Which is to say the GPA and Research are useful predictors of success, but thats it. They are looking for someone who has the potential to do amazing things, and would benefit in this resepect from a Stanford Education. Moreover, some programs are influenced by Research out of the Graduate School of Business that found that the entrepreneurs and leaders of the world are most likely to be the students at the top of the class or the bottom of the class (as opposed to the middle). As a result there's always a few people in each class with lower GPA's and less impressive experience, but a track record and essay that suggests leadership potenital.

Long story short, if you are looking to get into Stanford you certainly can do so with experience in core technical jobs. Your challenge is to convincingly put it together into a story of success, one step of which is at Stanford. Or, looking at it from the other direction, it reflects very well on the members of the admission board whenever someone they admit goes on to do great things (and vice versa). If you can convince them that you are a risk worth taking, you're in. Your academic and professional experience shold fit into that story.

Hi,

Cornell as you must be aware is one of the most sought out Schools and it does have a competitive applicant pool.

Some of the below stats* will help understand the School ( Class of 2021)

# of Applicants:

ED: 5,401 - Admits: 1,393 - Acceptance % - 26~

Regular: 41,638 - Admits : 4,569 - Acceptance % - 11~

Take Away: Applying in ED can be a huge factor, do note its a commitment.

Class Rank:

Enrolling Students* *

24% of students were ranked.

Rank Top 10% -86%

Not top 10% - 14 %

Take Away: Being Academically strong is important.

Standardized Tests:

Enrolling Student

Scores 25th Percentile 75th Percentile **

SAT ERW 690 760 **

SAT Math 700 790

ACT Composite 31 34

** Highest New SAT or concorded old SAT scores.

Take Away: ACT / SAT has a lot of importance.

Also, Cornell is one of the highly diverse schools both in terms of Nationality and gender with applicants from practically every part of the world and almost an equal Gender ratio Female 1,786 (52.9%) Male 1,589 (47.1%) , so you can safely assume its an equal opportunity school without any bias / preference.

So in summary, ensure you get your basics right including the Scores, Academics & application and if Cornell is your dream applying in the ED round should be your target.

I went to Duke, my roommate went to Cornell. Both for engineering degrees. Both of us have done quite well in management in Silicon Valley. Both would argue that “our school” is better. Both would be correct.

Once the choice comes down to top graduate schools, what matters MUCH more than the name of the college is what kind of person you are before you arrive and what you do once in the program that will determine your success:

• Do you engage in class?
• Do you offer to help your classmates?
• Will you press the professors to teach in a way that you can learn best?
• Will you extend yourself and learn about other technologies and disciplines while on campus?
• Will you eat right and exercise and socialize and stay healthy so you can strongly focus on your studies and get the most out of every day there?
• Will you look to do extra research that is interesting and motivating?
• Do you work well in teams? Can you learn well from classmates…

I’d recommend applying to both. If accepted to both, visit both. There is a HUGE difference in campus feel. Besides being much warmer and friendlier, I found Duke to be more spirited than Cornell, which mattered to me, but might not to you.

At schools like Cornell, over 50% of Valedictorians who apply are rejected. More 4.0 GPA students are rejected than admitted. And students with GPAs in the 3.6–3.7 range are also admitted. So GPA on its own is a poor predictor. First of all, GPA must be taken into context.

1. Was there an upward or downward trend?
2. How challenging was the curriculum (how many honors and AP classes classes were taken, or was it the IB, or the French Bac or the British GCSE/GCE etc…)
3. Is it weighed or unweighed etc…

Second, Cornell will look at the SAT and the Subject tests (still required for four of the seven colleges at Cornell).

Extra curricular activities will also matter.

Finally, the essays (Common App general essay and the Cornell supplement) will also be very important.

Cornell’s acceptance rate is 10% (8% for RD). So even students who have perfect GPAs, perfect test scores, great ECs and excellent essays, will stand a less than 20% chance of being admitted if they apply RD, and a less than 40% chance of being admitted if they apply ED.

You have asked the wrong question. You should have asked, "what kind of students graduate Cornell?"

The students that get into Cornell have good grades, probably top 10%, good SATs, lots of extracurricula stuff - all the same things that get you into any Ivy league or intensely academic school. The difference is that Cornell is large, rural, incredibly diverse, very cold and isolating in the winter, and unforgiving. Cornell is, admittedly, a little easier to get into than, say, Princeton, but Cornell is much easier to get out of. That is, fail. There is less help at Cornell - both academically and socially. It can be difficult to find your way and without a support group you can be lost. There is also a huge array of courses and some struggle to focus. Some of the departments are ruthless and provide little help for struggling students. Having family that attended a few other Ivy League schools, it is clear to me that the other schools actually want you to succeed and make services available to help when you struggle.

As a result, the students that succeed at Cornell are a little more able to put school in perspective and stand on their own. There are more loners and rebels. There are more students who take courses in blacksmithing along with their physical chemistry. At the same school, you have the agronomists, classics majors, astrophysicists and social workers, fraternity jocks, and radical lesbians, and large Hillel groups and vehement antisemites. It's all at Cornell and you have to be a little hard-nosed to weather it. And you have the Nobel-prize laureates teaching you and expecting quality work.

Getting into Cornell - just good, well-rounded students. Graduating - the toughest and brightest.

Yes, you will have a chance. Although Cornell University is extremely selective, that doesn't mean they are selective on the GPA points.

Your GPA only shows 10% of your overall academic performance. They also want to evaluate many other things and ultimately select the BEST-FIT applicants.

When I said you would have a chance, I meant you could present yourself to be the best-fit applicant.

I encourage students to think about a few things before they apply. They help you to think about the education and which college is the right fit for you.

1. Do you need to go to college? (I hope it is a Yes)
2. If so, how can a college degree help you to achieve your long-term career goal? Life goal? Relationship goal? Other goals?
3. College is expensive. Is there an alternative way to acquire the skills or knowledge for your goals without college?

Check out Michael Cho's answer to How do I get into UCLA with a 4.3 GPA? I give a general list of items (academics, activity, legacy…etc.) that admission communities commonly evaluate.

Your stats are below those of the 50% of the latest freshman classes to the most famous brand-name universities. Notice I say famous brand-name and not “top,” because “top” and “best” is relative. With those stats, you have earned the right to at least apply to all the universities without it being an absolute waste of time, even though chances are very slim because of your “low” SAT. There have been people in Harvard who got in with your stats, but those stats are not the reason they got in. They got in despite those stats, because they were extraordinary people. If you get in or not depends on who you are and what you’ve done. The famous brand-name universities don’t admit just the best students, they actually seek the best people. Learn the difference. As a student you are good. If as a person you are extraordinary (not just good), then you have a chance. Look for the extraordinary in you and show it. If it’s not there, then don’t worry. There’s always a university that would love to have you for who you are.

Of course you will. Cornell would be delighted to have someone a 4.25 unweighted GPA, having taken all College prep courses in your last 2 years, including several courses at a nearby University, with your outstanding undergraduate research and publications in good journals, with SAT scores that blew the top off the scale, with great path-breaking leadership and extracurricular activities which improved the lives of many underprivileged people in your community, and state championships in music and Athletics.

Oh, the above paragraph is not an accurate description of your resume?

Well, didn't you think it would make a difference?

I have a PhD from Cornell and I have no good answer to this question. There are professional and research programs.

Engineering has a professional masters program, basically an extra year of courses and a non-research project, which replaced a former five-year bachelors program that required a project in the fifth year. The MBA was a one-year addon to completed undergraduate work when I was at Cornell . Law takes three years. Medicine and veterinary medicine take longer. Each of these programs is structured in terms of courses and duration and doesn't involve research. They're all good programs for anyone who wants education past the undergraduate level and is not inclined to do research.

The research graduate programs are riskier because research is a risky business, making them longer because it takes time to do successful research. There are masters degrees available in most graduate fields. They usually consist of courses and some research that should pass peer review in a journal or journals. It's possible to complete most of these programs in a year or two. Many research graduate students skip masters programs and go straight for PhDs. Research doctoral programs usually consist of two or three years of courses and very challenging research. Most PhD students can handle the coursework but some of them falter in their research work. This is another circumstance in which students get masters degrees. Students who do successful peer-reviewed research get PhDs.

All of the scientific and mathematical PhD programs at Cornell are of high quality. I include engineering in both categories because graduate engineering is scientifically oriented and the engineering PhD program in applied mathematics is outstanding. Getting a PhD in any of these programs is a major achievement and reflects well on the holder of the degree.

I am less familiar with PhD programs in other fields such as liberal arts and non-scientific programs in the agricultural college. There may be different concepts of the nature of research in those fields. I'm saying this because I know of one person whose research consisted of watching how people shopped in local grocery stores.

Update: My perspectives on Cornell’s graduate programs were formed between 1967 and 1972. There have been changes to the programs since then, for example in the MBA program, as described by Paul P. Belle Isle in his comment on this post.

A stellar one. And by that, you have to be an all round sensation. Excellent academic scores, SOP, LORs, research publications, research projects, internships, extra-curricular activities, community work (eg. working in some NGO). All these aspects, of the profile, should to be sterling. GRE scores won't matter if you have a top-notch profile, however, you need to have decent scores, such as 320+. After meeting all such criteria, you can HOPE that you'll get an admit from UC Berkeley. And, if you want the one's at the summit, such as Stanford or MIT, then you have to ace everything discussed above and then HOPE that luck is on your side. Godspeed!

I had very similar qualifications as you do right now during my third year in ECE, BIT Mesra, minus the robotics project. Since I had no experience I had to work extra hard during my final year before the applications were due. For a more general answer to graduate application, feel free to check out my other answer.

Dipan Pal's answer to Higher Education: I am IInd year B. Tech. student of BIT Mesra, Ranchi and I want to carry my master course in foreign good universities then how should I prepare for GRE and what are the citeria for the selection including the scholarship?

However, since you are in a very similar situation, perhaps more details from my experience might help. First of all, its great that you have your interests sorted. Next is the step to actually get some work done towards those interests. Find a professor (more than one even, since you ll be needing three letters) who works in ML/AI in your college and work your a** off the next year. There is literally no other way. Your CGPA is fine, so focus more on research and let your professors see you're working hard. In my case, BIT at that time had no one I knew who worked explicitly in ML/AI/Vision. So I had to come up with what seemed at that time like a very difficult plan. I started working independently on an algorithm that interested me. Specifically, in 2008, a research company called Numenta came about (they have changed their name to Grok and are commercial now) whose founder had worked in neuroscience to come up with a cocktail of machine learning algorithms fused into one system called the HTM (Hierarchical Temporal Memory). I basically studied the system to the best of my abilities and applied them to some vision problems and proposed a bunch of application based systems based on the same. I was able to publish three papers in local "IEEE conferences" that are held every year in India. I put one of the projects as my Bachelor's project, which luckily won the TCS Best Student Project given annually at BIT. The reason I am being somewhat specific about my work is to just show that there isn't any "magic" to it. My work wasn't very great nor very novel. I guess it just went to show that I am passionate about my work, have worked hard plus I have gained some experience. This is pretty much what universities look for. Recommendation letters from India are pretty much ignored, unless they have something bad or neutral to say about you, in which case its going to hurt. So choose your letter writers wisely.

Research or industry experience is all what is needed for an MS application. The former being more important for a PhD application. In fact most of my MS classmates at CMU had 2 or more years of industry experience. This might be because MS ECE, CMU is a so-called "professional masters". However, given that you're in your third year in undergrad, research experience could be the more rewarding thing to pursue. The summer internship before the fall semester would definitely help, if its research based even better. Don't lose heart and keep working, independently if you have to. One thing I could've done is to look at the work of some CMU professors and contribute something of your own, even if its a small contribution. You can always publish at the local Indian conferences just to validate your work. Unsupervised unvalidated work is usually not taken very seriously. Another point I'd like to mention is that the graduate application process in the US is very subjective. It is true that due to limited number of seats many amazing researchers and students get left out. Even if things don't work out the way you planned the first time, don't give up trying.

Hope this helps a bit. All the best !

I finished my Masters in Engineering Management and I feel I can answer your question with Clarity.

I appreciate that while still in your Final year in college you know what you want. I would like to tell you that Engineering Management (EM) is a very broad field since every students who major from this are from various backgrounds and they choose the specialization from what their Interest and Passion lies in.

I did my specialization from Quality Engineering since that was my interest and passion, how did I come to this conclusion, I worked here in India for over 2 years which led me to strike off my Likes and Dislikes.

So my suggestion to you is first focus on your academics and from your CPI it’s clear that you are doing great. Continue doing it and find a decent job in what domain you like and work for a while until you realize that is what you are interest lies in.

So once you realize that it would be easy for you to come here and pursue your passion. Because I myself have seen my friends who just graduated from India and straight away come to USA to study struggle to find out what to specialize in and ending up taking subjects that are easy scoring but doesn’t help in getting a job because Marks really doesn’t matter in the states.

Now answering your actual question Princeton review book is really good for Gre and Toefl, just by preparing from this and answering their Sample Papers you can decently score 310+.

With respect to universities which offer best EM course, I would ask you to apply to Darkmouth College (Ivy League), Rutgers University as a very good Course work and University of Southern California too is really good. All the mentioned universities are Ivy League.

Going to decent mid level universities I would suggest you to go with Southern Methodist University, NJIT.

Good luck with your search.

There is never a single profile, so it is never easy to answer this kind of questions. What I am going to provide you with is what I would call an “ideal profile”. That doesn’t mean that this is the only way. But if you can check all the boxes, you are definitely going to be accepted.

1. Less than 2 years of work experience and ideally I would say no more than 1 year;
2. GMAT 700+ [720+ if you intend to work in consulting post-graduation]
3. International experience - that’s a big one! Work, studies or gap year abroad - every thing international is a huge plus on an application to the LBS MIM
4. Good undergrad GPA (3.5/4 and above ideal)
5. Know the school and program well and understand why this program is best for you - you will need it when it comes to the essays
6. Know your post-graduation plans (linked to point 5)

To conclude, people who apply to the LBS MiM usually also apply to programs at HEC, ESCP, IE, LSE, Imperial.

I can answer this question as a non-engineer working in Silicon Valley.

Cornell’s School of Engineering has been recognized as one of the best in the world for many years.

There is a very large Cornell Engineering community in Silicon Valley. They are mostly electrical and software engineers. Cornell places a lot of engineers in high technology companies. I have never run into a Dartmouth engineer in Silicon Valley. Dartmouth simply does not have the presence in Silicon Valley that Cornell does.

I am confident that Dartmouth’s program is a good one. But I know that the Cornell program is good because I see the results by the number of Cornell Engineering graduates who end up in Silicon Valley.

Both have very good prospects for employment after college. I’ve both been a straight IT Project Manager and an IT Security Manager, and I can tell you the number of unsolicited job emails I get for each area of expertise is equivalent. It also depends on your undergraduate degree. If you have an Engineering degree, then the MS in Project Management is more valuable, as the Engineering Management will require some duplication.

However, if you are an intelligent person who values new challenges, managing an engineering department is far more interesting than straight project management. Once I learned the job, I found Project Management to be rather boring, as I missed working directly with technology.

I can only speak for my own experience. My MS in engineering management theoretically prepared me to lead an engineering organization in a way similar to how one might lead an operations organization.

Many (if not most) engineers consider operations management principles such as Lean, Six Sigma, Continuous Improvement, etc. to be "buzzwords" that do nothing but add process and sound good for the investors. But, like in operations, these principles are only useful if the organization "buys in" and is willing to invest and commit to practicing them.

For a more concrete answer, my MS in engineering management consisted of coursework in written and oral communication (which I consider to be either the top 1 or 2 skills in management), finance and accounting (so you can understand what things cost and subsequently recognize areas to make improvement), behavioral analysis (to help you best utilize your human resources), traditional operations research (process optimization, quality management, supply chain management), marketing, and strategy.

As a Masters in Engineering Management myself, I think there are certain Universities that you should aim for (that I'd be enlisting)

However keep in mind, some colleges make it mandatory for you to have a minimal work experience.

1. Duke University
2. Dartmouth University
3. Purdue University
4. University of Southern California
5. University of Maryland
6. Northeastern University
7. Northwestern University
8. Cornell University

Furthermore, a lot of Universities offer courses that closely resemble to MEM, like:

1. Columbia University
2. New York University
3. University of Notredame
4. University of Texas
5. TAMU

All of these are American Schools. A couple of Canadian and Australian Universities do offer the same courses.

We hope you find this useful

Goodluck!

It really depends on the field path you came from, or where you want to go. Engineering Management is a broad field. Many Engineering Management degree holders already are Engineers in the field who want the business and management aspect side of Engineering. They go on to be Project managers for large engineering projects. Finance, marketing, statistics, accounting, and risk analysis is all covered in the Engineering Management side of the house.

Others become Program Managers, or Project Managers in other industries. For example, I work as a Project Manager for an IT startup. Prior to that I was a Program Manager for the military. While I have no undergrad degree in Engineering (mine was in Political Science) the Engineering Management degree introduced me to the technical concepts that were needed to supplement the business analytics side. In short, it’s considered a Technical MBA to most.

I can’t claim to know all of them, as I was only there for two years (my master’s), but of the people I was or met:

The New York School of Industrial and Labor Relations is fantastic. It graduates many brilliant master’s and PhD graduates.

Any engineering school is very good. Civil and environmental engineering is a big one.

Cornell Law School is consistently a T14 law school in the United States.

The economics school features everything from game theory to political choice.

The psychology school frequently produces top-tier studies in consumer behaviour.

The government (political science) school houses numerous top scholars in the international relations theory field.

The MBA school is extremely highly reputed, and is known for being open to double grad degrees (e.g.: MBA/MILR, MBA/JD).

The agricultural school is creative and innovative. A few years ago, it invented a new strawberry. Talk about needs we didn’t even know we had!

This is only the beginning, and only from people I know personally. I would recommend Cornell for pretty much anything.