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<p>Where did you see that? I got a MS in Civil Engineering from Columbia without ever taking economics. Did you mean Engineering Economy?</p>
<p>When I visited Carnegie Mellon, I met accepted grad students who would need to stay an extra semester or two because they were a chemistry or biology major. They would only take the undergrad courses that were directly related to their concentration. As students with an environmental engineering focus, they would not take geotech courses, for example. </p>
<p>I don’t understand how a general civil engineering master’s degree would work. It’s too broad of a field for that to work, in my opinion.</p>