Dual Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (BS IE) & MBA Program

The dual BSIE/MBA program provides an opportunity for students that want to combine the technical skills of an industrial engineer with a general managerial/business background. The program allows undergraduate students to earn the BSIE in four years and the MBA in only one additional year. The combined engineering/business perspective has proved to open additional career opportunities for graduating industrial engineers.

Admission to the Program

Prospective dual-program IMSE students take the GMAT examination and apply for the MBA program by the end of February of their junior year. Admission standards are the same as they are for any other applicant; a GPA of 3.0 and an acceptable GMAT score (average GMAT scores for incoming MBA students is 630). The admission decision is made on a rolling basis and, if accepted, the student can pre-register for fall MBA courses during the pre-registration period in March. The GMAT can be taken any time during the junior year and the grade point average is determined after fall semester grades.

Advising

You are assigned to a faculty member who is your academic advisor throughout the time you are an industrial engineering student. Your advisor will help you select courses each semester and provide guidance and help in achieving your academic goals.

Credits Requirements

A total of seventeen credit hours of the MBA program are waived in the BSIE/MBA program. All of these waivers are based on coursework completed in the BSIE program, except for one credit of seminar.
MBA courses that are waived:

BSIE students will take four courses (twelve credit hours) in the MBA program in their senior year. Six of these hours replace technical electives in the BSIE degree program; the other six will be free electives. Grades earned in the classes count toward the students undergraduate grade point average.

These courses are:

During the fifth year, students take thirty hours of MBA courses. These all are taken for graduate credit and are sufficient to meet the university requirement for a graduate degree. Students can choose to enroll in MBA classes during one summer and thus reduce the course load during the fifth year.