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The M.S. in Supply Chain Management integrates core business principles with cutting-edge analytics, data engineering, and decision science
Develop into an adaptable, analytically-minded leader with strong quantitative abilities, global awareness, and the readiness to drive supply chain excellence. Our supply chain management master's program transforms technically-focused undergraduates into capable professionals equipped to tackle complex, evolving challenges that rarely have clear-cut solutions. The program takes an interdisciplinary approach, blending principles from industrial marketing, operations management, and information systems. It consists of three key components: a foundational business core, a supply chain core incorporating both modeling and quantitative methods, and specialized electives featuring hands-on projects that enable students to hone expertise in particular supply chain domains. At Lally, students also benefit from guidance provided by our active executive advisory board.
Graduates will be equipped to structure and oversee supply chains across both manufacturing and service sectors. This encompasses: frameworks for supply chain design, operational optimization techniques, ways to harness information technology, and methods to build robust demand fulfillment systems within organizations.
This intensive 30-credit program spans one year. Its interdisciplinary curriculum merges concepts from industrial marketing, operations management, and information systems. The coursework is divided into three segments: essential business fundamentals, core supply chain principles, and specialized electives that incorporate practical, project-based learning opportunities for developing targeted supply chain expertise.
GRADUATE APPLICATION
Complete the online application for full- or part-time graduate degree programs.
Applicants may apply only to one degree program per term. Multiple applications for one term are not permitted.
NONREFUNDABLE APPLICATION PROCESSING FEE OF $75
The application processing fee must be paid electronically after submitting your application.
The application fee is waived for Rensselaer alumni, current Rensselaer students (matriculating and non-matriculating), employees, and employee spouses.
PERSONAL STATEMENT
Your Personal Statement should address your academic and research interests, and future career goals as they relate to the graduate program to which you are applying. The statement should include relevant academic/research, professional, and personal experiences that influenced your decision to apply to the graduate program.
The Architectural Sciences, M.S., program with a concentration in Built Ecologies requires an additional and separate Research Proposal describing your research goals and academic plan. The Research Proposal should describe your intended area of research and its broader significance, explaining why this area of inquiry matters. The statement should also address how your research interests align with the work being conducted at CASE, referencing any specific CASE projects that have inspired you and how they connect to your proposed research.
RESUME OR CURRICULUM VITAE
Your resume should include details about your education, employment, and internship history, as well as any pertinent research experience. International students in the U.S. on OPT or CPT should include details about their current activities.
LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION
You will be required to enter two recommenders on the online application. Recommendations should be from your academic advisor(s), professors, research mentors, etc., who can provide an assessment of your likelihood of success at the graduate level in your field of study.
PORTFOLIO, IF REQUIRED BY DEPARTMENT
Architecture, Built Ecologies, and Electronic Arts only.
Critical Game Design M.S./Ph.D. requires examples of prior work (e.g.: portfolio, project samples).
TRANSCRIPTS AND DEGREES
Transcripts and Degrees must be in English (all post-secondary education, including transcript keys).
Unofficial transcripts should be uploaded to your graduate application. The minimum requirement for admission consideration is the completion and award of a four year U.S. bachelor's degree, or its equivalent, by the time of planned enrollment.
GRE/GMAT SCORES
Required for Management, Ph.D.
Optional for all other degree programs. Strongly recommended for all Computer Science and Cognitive Science programs. The GRE Institution code is 2757.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS (ONLY)
Applicants possessing a valid Green Card will be considered as a domestic student for purposes of admission and financial aid.
The TOEFL, IELTS, Duolingo, or PTE is required of all international applicants whose native language is not English.