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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Industrial Engineering (BS)

Location(s): Manhattan Campus


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The Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in industrial engineering at Kansas State University is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, https://www.abet.org, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Industrial and Similarly Named Engineering Programs. 

Bachelor’s degree requirements

Kansas State University Core: 34-36 Credit Hours


K-State Core  is the foundation for an impactful life and career after time at K-State.

The K-State Core framework covers six disciplinary areas: English, Communications, Mathematics & Statistics, Natural & Physical Sciences, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Arts and Humanities. In addition, a seventh area is reserved for institutionally designated use, which K-State is keeping as free electives. In total, the framework takes up 34-35 credit hours of 100 and 200-level coursework. Students who complete their general education elsewhere cannot be required to take additional general education coursework in the disciplinary areas of the framework without permission from KBOR to continue requiring courses in the K-State Core.

General Education: K-State Core  

Program


The curriculum for this major assumes students enter college prepared to take Calculus.

Retricted Electives: (18 credit hours)


  • Computer Programming Elective Credits: 3

  • Analytics Elective Credits: 3

  • Engineering Elective Credits: 6

  • IMSE Elective Credits: 6

IMSE Curriculum Notes


The Industrial Engineering Approved Elective Lists and Requirements can be located at the following URL: https://imse.k-state.edu/academics/undergraduate/degree-requirements/ 

Analytics Elective: Choose one course from the approved department elective list.

Computer Programming Elective: Choose one course from the approved department elective list. 

Engineering Electives: Choose 6 hours from the approved departmental list.

IMSE Electives: Choose 6 hours of IMSE courses from the IMSE department. 

KBOR General Education: See the K-State Core section; Recommendations for IMSE students can be found on the IMSE requirement page (see the URL above).

Substitutions:  IMSE 591 and IMSE 592 can substitute for IMSE 580.  

IMSE Graduation Criterion: To graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, students must have a >= 2.200 GPA in all IMSE classes taken for undergraduate credit at Kansas State University.  Course grades that have been removed by the K-State Retake policy will not apply to this GPA calculation.

IMSE Course Retake Criterion: Any IMSE course being taken for a third time in any five-year period may not be used to fulfill a student’s B.S.I.E. graduation requirements.

IMSE Assembly Requirement: Each semester a student must enroll in IMSE 015 unless he/she is a concurrent B.S./M.S.I.E. student, in which case he/she must enroll in either IMSE 015 or IMSE 892.

Total Hours Required for Graduation: 120


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