Master of Science in Information, Risk, and Operations Management
Doctor of Philosophy

For More Information

Campus address: College of Business Administration Building (CBA) 5.202, phone (512) 471-3322, fax (512) 471-0587; campus mail code: B6500

Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Program, Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, 2110 Speedway B6500, Austin TX 78712-1277

PhD program e-mail: IROMPhDAdmissions@mccombs.utexas.edu

PhD program URL: http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Departments/IROM/Degree-Programs/PhD

Facilities for Graduate Work

Faculty members and graduate students in information, risk, and operations management are involved in the work of the Center for Business, Technology, and Law, the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce, the risk management and insurance program, and the Supply Chain Center of Excellence. Additional research centers that support graduate work in the McCombs School, as well as the school’s physical facilities and computing systems, are described in the business administration section under Facilities for Graduate Work.

Areas of Study

The graduate degrees in Information, Risk, and Operations Management are offered with four independent concentrations: decision science; information systems; operations management; and statistics. 

Graduate Studies Committee

The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee (GSC) in the spring 2023 semester.

Ashish Agarwal Edward G Anderson Jr Uttarayan Bagchi Anantaram Balakrishnan Indranil R Bardhan Anitesh Barua Magdalena Bennett Patrick L Brockett Junyu Cao Carlos Marinho Carvalho Deepayan Chakrabarti Avinash Collis Paul Damien Maria De Arteaga Gonzalez James S Dyer Rui Gao Stephen M Gilbert Diwakar Gupta Genaro J Gutierrez

Sirkka L Jarvenpaa Prabhudev C Konana Guoming Lai Yan Leng Douglas J Morrice Jared Scott Murray Kumar Muthuraman Maytal Saar-Tsechansky Thomas W Sager James G Scott Thomas S Shively Ioannis Stamatopoulos Huseyin Tanriverdi Efstathios Tompaidis Wen Wen Andrew B Whinston Thaleia Zariphopoulou Mingyuan Zhou

Admission Requirements

Admission to information, risk, and operations management programs is extremely competitive. The admission decisions are based on the applicant’s academic record, test scores, personal statement, résumé, and letters of recommendation. Students must enter the PhD program in the fall semester.