Engineering Management students meet in the atrium of Butler-Carlton Civil Engineering Hall to discuss their senior design project on Feb. 7, 2023. Photo by Michael Pierce/Missouri S&T
Missouri S&T’s online master’s degree in engineering management has once again earned national acclaim with a ranking of fifth in the nation alongside Duke University, according to the U.S. News & World Report rankings released Jan. 21.
S&T’s engineering management program was the first in the nation, beginning in 1968. In 2022, it became one of three founding departments of the Kummer College for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development.
“We are very robust,” says Dr. Amaury Lendasse, professor and chair of engineering management and systems engineering. “We are always highly ranked. We’re outstanding in project management, we’re good in human factors, we’re good in data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and operation research.”
The master’s degree in engineering management at S&T is one of the few in the country certified by the American Society of Engineering Management. The overall program is offered on campus, online and at Fort Leonard Wood through the Engineer Captains Career Course.
Lendasse says he plans to continue growing the program, and the university is preparing a fully asynchronous version of the master’s degree program by next fall.
“We know that there are a lot of students in the nation who are working and want to have a degree like that, so we are building a high-quality, fully asynchronous version,” Lendasse says. “We are going to be top in the nation for in-person, online and asynchronous.”
Alumni of the engineering management program have graduated into high-profile careers. Graduates from 2024 have reported they will be working at companies such as Microsoft, Ford, MasterCard, PepsiCo, Walmart and Amazon.
“We produce students who are engineers with great soft skills,” Lendasse says. “That’s why they become managers.”
Missouri S&T’s online engineering management graduate degree program was among over 100 programs offered by regionally accredited institutions whose programs are offered mostly or entirely online that were surveyed and evaluated by U.S. News. For the ranking, U.S. News ranked programs using five categories: engagement, faculty credentials and training, peer assessment, services and technologies, and student excellence. The U.S. News rankings are available online.
Learn more about Missouri S&T’s online degree programs at online.mst.edu.
About Missouri University of Science and Technology
Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) is a STEM-focused research university of over 7,000 students located in Rolla, Missouri. Part of the four-campus University of Missouri System, Missouri S&T offers over 100 degrees in 40 areas of study and is among the nation’s top public universities for salary impact, according to the Wall Street Journal. For more information about Missouri S&T, visit www.mst.edu.
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