About IROM
IROM Rankings
Undergraduate
- #4 Management Information Systems, U.S. News (2015)
- #4 Supply Chain Management, Gartner (2014)
- #10 Insurance/Risk Management, U.S. News (2015)
- #11 Productions/Operations Management, U.S. News (2015)
- #9 Quantitative Analysis, U.S. News (2015)
- #9 Supply Chain Management, U.S. News (2016)
Graduate
- #3 Information Systems, U.S. News (2017) Note: This is the 25th year this has been in top-5
- #1 Information Systems, College Choice (2016)
- #13 Productions/Operations, U.S. News (2017)
- #8 Supply Chain Management, Gartner (2014)
- #6 Supply Chain Management, SCM World (2016)
- #15 Supply Chain/Logistics, U.S. News (2017) Note: This is the 9th year this has been in top-20
- #13 Production/Operations, U.S. News (2017)
- #5 MSBA, Financial Engineer Times (2016)
The Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management (IROM) consists of three academic disciplines: Information Management, Operations Management and Risk Analysis and Decision Making. The IROM Department has several outstanding and nationally ranked programs including the Undergraduate Management Information Systems program (#5 by U.S. News and World Report), the MBA Information Systems program (#3 by U.S. News and #1 by College Choice), the Undergraduate Product/Operations Management program (#11 by U.S. News), the MBA Productions/Operations Management program (#13 by U.S. News), and the MS Business Analytics program (#3 by Master's in Data Science).
The IROM Department highly values both research and teaching. IROM faculty research can be seen in varied publications, including the Wall Street Journal (Andrew Whinston), CIO Network on Forbes (Anitesh Barua), and Management Science (Steve Gilbert). The department boasts the "most influential researcher in the field of management information systems" in Andrew Whinston, as identified by the h-Index for Management Information Systems. Two more IROM faculty, Sirkka Jarvenpaa and Anitesh Barua, were also ranked in this study.