2nd Bachelors in IE or Masters in IE?

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<p>I received my bachelors in Business Admin from a weak liberal arts school. I'm currently in the process of completing the bridging courses needed for engineering (Calc 1-3 and Diff Equations) while working full time.</p>

<p>I can get into both the Masters or do a second bachelors of IE in the school that is closest to where I work and where my family lives yet I am still debating on whether to do the BS or the masters.</p>

<p>Some positives of hte BS are that if I start with a bachelors, I can later do a masters and a PHD in operations research in a more prestigious school. The positive of a masters is that I can complete it in less time.</p>

<p>I'd appreciate it if you could give me feedback on this decision.</p>

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<p>Bachelors if you want to be an engineer.</p>

<p>MBA if you want to do business.</p>

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<p>Thanks. An MBA is in my plans eventually. But I want a technical education first.</p>

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<p>I’m not really the one who would know, but say you do look at a 2nd bachelors, and then as you hoped for, you do a masters at a more prestigious school, you’ll eventually have.</p>

<p>A BBA
A BSE
An MS/MSE
An MBA</p>

<p>Sounds kind of ridiculous. </p>

<p>I would think the MSE would be better.</p>

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<p>I.E. would be the best choice to get a 2nd bachelor’s. Unless the program has a heavy manufacturing emphasis, you can almost “operations research/linear program” your way to a BSIE. The good thing about operations research is that it can also be an “emphasis” in an MBA degree program.</p>

<p>I would also say that Information Systems can get you into some areas of Engineering and can also be used as an MBA concentration later on.</p>

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<p>I don’t see how you could possibly get a MS in engineering with a BBA. I see that you are trying to take math requirements but there are so many fundamental engineering courses that you have not had. I don’t know a lot about IE but I have heard that it is likely less mathematical than say ME or EE but still, I don’t know what graduate program wouldn’t make you take a ton of prerequisites before you could get a MS. I’m sure even IE is night and day from an undergrad in business so I would think tht jumping into a MS would be difficult. It seems to me you would have to take so many undergrad classes first that you should maybe just get the BS anyway.</p>

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<p>ME-76,</p>

<p>Systems Engineering is probably the only graduate engineering major you can get into with just taking the math and science of an engineering program. Not trying to sound like an expert, but I was a Math major (undergrad) who went on to get a MSE later on.</p>

<p>Here is an example: [Penn</a> State | Online Masters of Engineering in Systems Engineering | Admissions](<a href=“Systems Engineering Master's Degree (M.Eng.) Online - Penn State World Campus”>Systems Engineering Master's Degree (M.Eng.) Online - Penn State World Campus)</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.sys.virginia.edu/accelerated/ad_main.html[/url]”>http://www.sys.virginia.edu/accelerated/ad_main.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>For what it’s worth… Similar situation at Michigan…</p>

<p>The following undergraduate courses are required:
Calculus - 2 years (4 semesters or 6 quarters)
Science - 2 years (Chemistry, Physics or Biology) (Considering Michigan only requires 15 credits, I bet you could get away with only 15 credits)

  • Probability - 1 course (Calculus based)
  • Statistics - 1 course (Calculus based)
  • Linear Algebra - 1 course (frequently included in Calculus sequence)
  • Computer Programming - Demonstrated ability (e.g. completed coursework) to write computer programs</p>