Introduction

Key dates and structure of the programme.

Programme structure

There are three parts to the programme structure:

Part 1 covers the core skills of Operational Research. The majority of the core courses are in Semester 1.
Part 2 gives you the opportunity to tailor your degree to your own future objectives by selecting from a broad range of optional courses. These are taught mainly in Semester 2. Parts 1 and 2 are taken by both Diploma and MSc students.
Part 3 is for MSc students only. It begins in June and comprises three months of project work on which you base your dissertation.

Programme Director	Dr Kit Searle
Cohort Lead	Dr Andreas Grothey
Project Coordination	Dr Sergio García Quiles
Postgraduate Student Advisers	Hayley Crawford (Lewis Allan, Emily Harlo, Keira Burnett, Grace Wilson, Emily Stewart)
Head of Theme OR and Statistics	Prof Miguel Anjos
Teaching Organisation Manager	Stuart Fitzpatrick
Deputy Teaching Organisaton Manager	Luke Caudrey
Programme Secretary OR and Statistics	Gemma Aitchison

David Edelman & Alan Forrest	Credit Scoring (CSc)
Dr Alper Yildirim	Fundamentals of Optimization (FuO)
Dr Sergio Garcia Quiles	Fundamentals of OR (FuOR)
Dr Sergio Garcia Quiles	Integer and Combinatorial Optimization (ICO)
Dr Skarleth Carrales	Introductory Probability & Statistics (IPS)
Prof Jacek Gondzio	Large Scale Optimization for Data Science (ODS)
Dr Kit Searle	Methodology, Modelleing & Consulting Skills (MMCS)
Dr Andreas Grothey	Nonlinear Optimization (NLO)
Dr Akshay Gupte	Optimization Methods in Finance (OMF)
Dr Merve Bodur	Optimization under Uncertainty (OuU)
Prof Miguel Anjos, Prof Ken McKinnon & Prof Chris Dent	OR in the Energy Industry (OREI)
Dr Kit Searle	Risk and Logistics (RaL)
Dr Burak Buke	Simulation (Sim)
Dr Lars Schewe	Topics in Applied OR (TAOR)

Each variant of the Operational Research programmes has its own DPT. You can find these on the programme variants page.

This article was published on 2025-02-26