@AlmostThere2018. Pm me if you want to. My son plans on doing what your saying. Manufacturing is really just one subset of Industrial. My son plans on going into business management in tech…lol… His first internship was on the project development team of a known tech company and 2 of his bosses were industrial engineers. What your describing is exactly what industrial engineering is. You can really go into many different areas with it.
Just an idea but not limited to… https://ioe.engin.umich.edu/academics/undergrad/programs/
He actually learned scrum business technique at his internship and brought it back to his tech club he started 3 years ago at school. https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agile/scrum
He was in daily business meetings and given projects that had to do with analysis and cost savings for the company. Lots of these kids don’t really need an MBA but I assume some do get them.
BTW… All that fancy calculus… He mostly used Excell… Lol… He now knows sql and sees some benefit to that as well.
FYI…
@AlmostThere2018 - My H is an IE/MBA. His first job offer was for one of the big consulting companies. There are lots of ways you can go with an IE degree.
IE also goes into process optimization / operations research. This area can be statistics and math heavy.
@AlmostThere2018, Given his interest in business I would also suggest that he at least check out the the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Raikes school online (I found this thread by doing a search for Raikes school on CC so I’m pretty sure somebody else mentioned it earlier in this thread). The program is new to me but from what I understand most students major in computer science/computer engineering/software engineering with a business minor or a business discipline as a major and a computer science minor. But those are far from the only majors, some of the students have non-business, non-STEM majors.
My daughter discovered the program online over the summer, we took her to visit in the fall and she loved it. It would likely come in considerably under your budget, it may not have all the name prestige he’s looking for but from what I am hearing the students are competitive with the best programs in the nation for internships and job placement.