Education

National University of Singapore (NUS): Business: Decision Sciences

Category Business, Decision Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Undergraduate
Tags Business, Decision Sciences, National University of Singapore, NUS

A warm welcome to the Department of Decision Sciences. Please feel free to explore our website and contact us should you need assistance.

We are a multi-disciplinary department under the NUS Business School. Faculty members are PhD holders from top business schools like the Northwestern University, University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, University of California, Berkeley, University of Minnesota, MIT, and others.

Staff members are up-to-date in both academic research and applied business consulting projects. Our expertise operate in the fields of Supply Chain Management, e-Business, Information Technology and Management Science. For information system (IS) researchers, please go to ISWorld Singapore Country Homepage and ISWorld Strategic Information Systems Homepage for the lates IS developments.

Research work have been published in top international journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, Decision Science, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Operations Management, IIE Transactions, International Journal of Production Research, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, Biometrika, Journal of Time Series Analysis, Journal of Applied Probability, Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, and Annals of Applied Probability.

Staff consult or teach at organizations such as Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Home Affairs, Civil Service College, Port of Singapore Authority, Singapore Airlines, Singapore Post, IBM Singapore Pte Ltd, BASF South East Asia, Motorola Electronics Pte Ltd, and Apple Computer South Asia Pte Ltd. The department has also hosted or co-hosted various international conferences such as the first INFORMS International Meeting (1995) and the 1995 Pan Pacific Conference on Information Systems; the Asia Pacific Decision Sciences Conference 2001, the International Conference for e-Business 2003 (ICEB) and the Sino-Japanese Optimization Meeting (SJOM) 2005.

Undergraduates here can specialize and compete for scholarships under the concentration of Operations and Supply Chain Management. Graduate students pursue their Masters (in Management) and doctorates through research work in various aspects of Decision Sciences; namely Operations Research, Information Systems and Optimization problems.

The department staff are also members and associates of various University-level research centres and offices such as the Singapore MIT Alliance program (SMA); The Logistics Asia-Pacific Institute (Dual Masters Program in Supply Chain Management), Centre for e-Business, and NUS Entrepreneurship Centre.