Can I Study IE at The Masters Level With an Undergrad Business Degree?

A_Balding_Loser · 05-11-2008, 11:33 PM

Operations management undergrad degree....very relevant to IE, but I didn't take all the physics and chem, and less math (only got calc I and II + stats).

would I be in a position to study this at the masters level? I know some schools allow it (university of iowa for example), but I don't want to put myself in a position where I'm in over my head.

I'm not the most talented student, but I make up for it with hard work.

Columbia_Student · 05-12-2008, 12:54 PM

You mean IEOR? I think it's very hard. Lots of math. I have taken lots of math(2 years of math and up to Fourier Transform &Laplace theory) and I still find it difficult. Try to google the following terms: Geometric Brownian motion, Ito's Calculus, Black-Scholes Theory and see if you can understand it. At some colleges they are 500 to 700 series. You also need to already take calculus based Probability/Statistics course.

A_Balding_Loser · 05-12-2008, 07:46 PM

well, obviously im not going to understand any of that stuff at this point in time....i dont have the foundation currently. i guess my question was just whether i could develop the foundation to handle it this late in the game.