Re:Operations Research / Applied Math (Score 1)

There's OR applications in areas such as health-care, environmental management, forestry management, transportation, and much more. Environmental management, in particular, is something that operations research is going to play a huge role as government and industry focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

I absolutely agree with the above, and I would make an even stronger statement. OR can be applied to essentially any field. There is very little "infinity" or deterministic behavior in real world applications - we always need optimal allocations of scarce resources (all of which are random variables at the end of the day). This is particularly obvious in economic applications, but every for-profit/non-profit organization with competition needs to make smart decisions.

OR coupled with a CS theory/programming toolbox is quite powerful and always very enticing to an employer.