As someone who did an industrial engineering undegrad and MS in management science I could not agree more with how conducive OR is to EA in general! I do want to pitch Stanford's MS in Management Science & Engineering program, which I recently completed, because I think it would be a great opportunity for some EAs who want to get a more technical graduate degree, dive deeper into a focus area, and plug in to the bay area EA and tech communities. They have concentrations that coincide with a lot of EA cause areas and paths, such as Financial Analytics (for earning-to-give), Technology and Engineering Management, Computational Social Science, Decision Analysis and Risk Analysis, and Health Systems Modeling. It's also a relatively short program (45 quarter units, 1-1.5 years) and allows you to take courses across many departments, like CS and economics.
As someone who did an industrial engineering undegrad and MS in management science I could not agree more with how conducive OR is to EA in general! I do want to pitch Stanford's MS in Management Science & Engineering program, which I recently completed, because I think it would be a great opportunity for some EAs who want to get a more technical graduate degree, dive deeper into a focus area, and plug in to the bay area EA and tech communities. They have concentrations that coincide with a lot of EA cause areas and paths, such as Financial Analytics (for earning-to-give), Technology and Engineering Management, Computational Social Science, Decision Analysis and Risk Analysis, and Health Systems Modeling. It's also a relatively short program (45 quarter units, 1-1.5 years) and allows you to take courses across many departments, like CS and economics.