Video Transcript

Jacob, Host at Logistics Degree:
Question: How long does a bachelor’s degree in supply chain take to get? What types of things are you studying for that degree and then what careers are available to you once you’ve gotten the bachelor’s degree?

Corben, Supply Chain Manager:
Answer: I would say the it’s important to distinguish here. We’ve got the business track and we’ve got the engineering track and they overlap quite a bit. So there’s certainly the logistics, supply chain degree in the College of Business at many schools and that has a lot of background where you do a survey of different business courses. So finance, accounting, marketing, all of those. Or you could take an engineering course track which leads you into industrial engineering is the term. So the terms are very different, but they have a lot of overlap. And so those the engineering track has a lot more math and science and it might have to take engineering. Physics is one of those classes that’s especially hard. And so if you’re willing to do that really complex math, you can oftentimes get paid better because you’re lumped in with the engineers, not the management professionals. So that can come with extra salary as well.

Alexander, Supply Chain & Procurement:
Answer: So bachelor’s in supply chain takes four years, takes two years or so of general classes and then two years of more major related classes. My bachelor’s degree focused more on theoretical supply chain, but also comparing it to more real life experiences. So it was more towards, I guess, a practical environment. So we had different companies come in and give use case studies and they would tell us essentially, hey, we have this much demand, we have this much supply, we have these many constraints. Using the methods that you learned in this class, whether it is using math to solve an operational and efficiency question, solve this. So it was a lot of practical based projects in my degree and I really enjoyed that. Some courses that you’ll be able to find is learning about logistics, but not necessarily getting too much into it. I think it’s more focused on how to solve a problem using math, how to solve a problem using Excel analysis, how to calculate demand and supply. How to common sense. Because in the beginning of your degree, you really don’t have much supply chain common sense, but at the end you have a little bit sequencing common sense. So what makes more sense to you to place where I guess would make more sense to place certain distribution centers for this company? So I think they really pushed our brains to think more like a supply chain manager rather than to actually do a bunch of project work and constantly reading about it.

Haley, Logistics Project Manager
Answer: At my school at least bachelor’s degrees standardly took four years unless you were doing a lot of summer classes and stuff like that. But for me, a bachelor’s degree was four years and usually at a lot of schools it’s a specific program, so you’ll do your generals and then apply to the program, and it’s usually about a year and a half to two years.

William, Director of Operations:
Answer: It’s a four year degree. There are especially the one that I teach at. You know, you can get an associate’s in two years, but the curriculum is pretty much the same. You have an overarching supply chain course and then inside of there, you’ll get into logistics, inventory, procurement, obviously planning and then supply chain systems, which is that, which is a really good course.