[femto]

Does the degree title refer to the "science and engineering of management" or "management, science and engineering" or "engineering and the science of management"? My limited reading indicates the first, but can anyone confirm?

[ojbyrne]

Management Science is a subdiscipline of management. Also known as Operations Research:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research

[coryl]

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/cgi-bin/academics/bs.php