Finance - course 14 or course 15?

k4r3n2
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:24:20 +0000

6.046 is definitely one of the hardest required courses for a computer science major. I say this as someone who has earned a computer science degree from MIT, who is current pursuing a master’s degree in computer science, and who has many friends who are also pursuing / have received degrees in computer science at MIT.

Part of being a business major is being able to make business connections, and being at a top tech school allows you to do that. There’s a reason that HBS students advertise to MIT computer science majors for technical cofounders, and one of the great parts of Sloan is that you can take classes (and live) alongside brilliant engineering minds.

To the OP’s original question, I maintain that it depends on what you want to do. If you’d like to do high-frequency trading, then most firms will look for some sort of math / science (especially computer science) background.

However, I don’t think this discussion about the merits of Sloan vs. another degree is really relevant, as I don’t think that either of us are really experts on what it actually takes to earn a business degree, given that I earned a CS degree and iceui2 has not earned any degree at all.