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Program Description

With the degree awarded by the College of Engineering, this one-year professional masters program prepares students with the skills to model, analyze and optimize decisions under uncertainty and provide business intelligence for the digital world.

Cornell Tech Program Policies

• Cornell Tech campus policy indicates that students enrolled in full-time masters programs are required to maintain a minimum of 12 credits of enrollment each semester.

• Students are advised to enroll in an average of 15 credits each semester, to ensure progression towards degree completion. Students may not enroll in more than 18 credits per semester without Program Director approval, which will be granted only in exceptional circumstances.

• Students must maintain at least a 2.5 GPA. Students who are not in good standing may be asked to leave the program.  
• At least 28 credits must be taken for a letter grade and only 2 S/U credits will be counted towards the degree credit requirement.
• All students must receive a B or higher in TECH 5900 Product Studio or TECH 5910 Startup Studio, TECH 5920 BigCo Studio, or TECH 5930 PiTech Impact Studio.
• Only classes with a grade of C- or higher will count towards a student's degree requirements.
• Audited courses will not count towards degree credits, and students may only enroll in one audit course per semester.
• Please note Curricular Practical Training credits (TECH 5999 Independent Study) do not count towards graduation/degree requirements.

Program Information

• Program Mode of Delivery: In Person
• Program Location: New York City, NY
• Minimum Credits for Degree: 30
• Length of Program: Full-time study

Program Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Required Technical Courses (18 credits) 1
ORIE 5380	Optimization Methods	3
ORIE 5530	Modeling Under Uncertainty	3
ORIE 5750	Applied Machine Learning 2	3
or CS 5781	Machine Learning Engineering
ORIE elective		3
Technical Electives (choose from CS, ECE, INFO, or ORIE course offerings)		6
Required Studio Courses (8 credits) 3
TECH 5900	Product Studio	4
TECH 5910	Startup Studio	3
or TECH 5920	BigCo Studio
or TECH 5930	PiTech Impact Studio
TECH Studio Elective 4		1
General Electives (4 credits) 5		4
Total Hours		30

¹

Students must take at least 18 credits from courses that are advanced and technical (5000-level or higher). At least 12 of those credits must come from ORIE courses.

²

CS 5781 Machine Learning Engineering counts towards your 18 technical credits but not towards the required 12 ORIE credits.

³

All Studio Courses must be taken for a letter grade.

⁴

TECHIE prefixes do not quality as Studio electives.  

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Select from any offerings on Cornell Tech’s campus (CS, DESIGN, ECE, INFO, ORIE, LAW, NBAY, TECH, TECHIE).

TECHIE 5310 Business Fundamentals must be taken as a prerequisite for selected business courses.

University Graduation Requirements

Requirements for All Students

In order to receive a Cornell degree, a student must satisfy academic and non-academic requirements.

Academic Requirements

A student’s college determines degree requirements such as residency, number of credits, distribution of credits, and grade averages. It is the student’s responsibility to be aware of the specific major, degree, distribution, college, and graduation requirements for completing their chosen program of study. See the individual requirements listed by each college or school or contact the college registrar’s office for more information.

Non-academic Requirements

Conduct Matters. Students must satisfy any outstanding sanctions, penalties or remedies imposed or agreed to under the Student Code of Conduct (Code) or Policy 6.4. Where a formal complaint under the Code or Policy 6.4 is pending, the University will withhold awarding a degree otherwise earned until the adjudication process set forth in those procedures is complete, including the satisfaction of any sanctions, penalties or remedies imposed.

Financial Obligations. Outstanding financial obligations will not impact the awarding of a degree otherwise earned or a student’s ability to access their official transcript. However, the University may withhold issuing a diploma until any outstanding financial obligations owing to the University are satisfied.