Finance - course 14 or course 15?

iceui2
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:03:26 +0000

I’ll qualify that. Course 15 is good if you want a job that doesn’t require a lot of quantitative skills (e.g. i-banking, operations, consulting, etc). But then why come to MIT? That’s my main point - Course 15 does not expose you to the type of rigor that makes MIT the #1 engineering school in the world. But of course, you can always take courses outside of your major.

With that said, 6.046 is definitely not one of the hardest courses in computer science. It’s just a regular algorithm class that every college offers. Advanced algorithms is 6.854. However, 6.046 is very nicely taught, since the professor is the guy who wrote the “bible” of algorithms.