Please Help!! Major in statistics at UCLA or industrial engineering at Georgia Tech??

Chardo
Wed, 18 Apr 2018 14:34:45 +0000

Since the majors are relatively similar, would it be possible to major in statistics and get a masters in industrial engineering? Or would it even be worth it to go to graduate school for that major?

It might be possible, but probably unnecessary. And I’m not a big fan of high school kids automatically planning on grad school unless they dream of careers that require it (medicine, law, etc.). Especially for engineering/math types that easily enter the workforce without a masters. If you choose, after graduation and often after working, to expand your knowledge, that’s a different story. Based on your work experience, you might find that you want a more specialized masters like supply chain, analytics, operations research, etc. Or even an MBA, which is common with IE grads climbing the corporate ladder.