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Some things may surprise you about this top 10 department nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia and the Nations capital region.
You could attend college or attend frequent research meetings with faculty in two of the most popular tourist destinations in the United States!
Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) primarily teaches you how to observe, analyze and improve a process or a system. This unique trait sets it apart from other majors because an ISE with his/her comprehensive knowledge of systems analysis can step into any other engineering, business or arts field and use their knowledge to analyze and completely overhaul a system or a process resulting in more efficient, streamlined and optimized processes. Outdated systems and processes might be replaced by new ones, but the need to improve and optimize them will always exist. This was something other engineering majors did not offer, which is primarily why I chose ISE.
