<p>Im considering taking on the simultaneous degree in Bussiness and Mechanical engineering. Does anyone know what kind of schedules people would have in this program. This semester im taking</p>
<p>Physics 7a
Eng 77
Math 54
Music 27
Bussiness 10</p>
<p>Chances are I'll have to drop one of these classes.</p>
<p>Umm...Business as in Haas? So pre-haas and mechanical engineering?</p>
<p>Ouch.</p>
<p>By Business 10 I suppose you mean UGBA 10. It's supposed to be really competitve and a weeder so watch out. Sounds like you are a second year student, am I wrong? From the looks of it, yeah you might have to drop a class. How about trying it out for the first week and drop the one you like the least/need the least? If you want to do Haas i.e. Business Administration UGBA 10 is a must. Physics 7a is pretty much a must for engineering majors if I'm not mistaken...maybe math 54 too. You know I don't know that much about this so I'm going to wait for someone else to come and better answer your question. :D</p>
<p>Eng 77 is a freshman seminar I believe. Double majors in general aren't recommended for being exceptionally difficult for little gain. Engineering/Business ranks up there. I didn't think it was possible to double major with Haas involved.</p>
<p>whoa... E77 is definately not a freshman seminar.. It's the programming course most engineers have to take..</p>
<p>It will be almost impossible to do a double major with one major in L&S and the other in COE. There just isn't enough overlap, generally. It would take meticulous planning and an extra semester, and even then it'd be pushing it.</p>
<p>A more realistic solution would be to get your Mech E bachelor's degree, then get an MBA. This is a common route for engineers that want to get into the business side of engineering firms.</p>
<p>Woops, meant to say Freshman intro class. Been looking at too many flyers recently.</p>
<p>I agree with eudean that pulling off a double in engineering and business will be almost impossible. It has been done before, notably by Ankur Luthra, Berkeley's last Rhodes Scholar, but it is going to be no walk in the park.</p>
<p>More importantly, I don't know that it's really worth it. The truth is, employers care very little about double majors. You're not really making yourself significantly more employable via a double. The time you spent on a double could, frankly, probably be better spent working on your interview skills and your networking, because those are the kinds of things that will REALLY get you a job.</p>
<p>Actually Im a first year student. There are a number of people who do this program every year. Mainly I'm really interested in doing Management consulting for a top firm, but I dont want to limit myself by just doing engineering. I also dont want to give up engineering because I like having an engineering degree to fall back on if bussiness doesnt work. Just doing Mech engineering would be fine as long as I know I still have a strong chance of working at one of these firms. Does anyone have suggestions of how I could maximise my chances with just an engineering degree.</p>
<p>Why not just spend an extra year or two getting an MBA? It's very common, and gives you exactly the type of experience you want.</p>
<p>Well, eudean, I don't know about that. It's not altogether easy to get into the Haas MBA program or any other top MBA program without significant full-time work experience. So the OP would have to figure out what to do in the interim.</p>
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<p>Weren't the requirements different back then (in 2003 or whatever?) He could have just taken the 8 upper-divs required for the BA major without having to complete all those lower-division breadth requirements and apply to the business school. If not, I'd like to see what his schedule looked like. He also graduated in 3.5 years IIRC so he must have had a lot of AP credits, or the requirements were different, or he had a really loaded courseload throughout all his semesters at Cal.</p>
<p>Student, is also possible he did summer school or took classes at other schools during high school or his time at Berkeley.</p>
<p>sakky, would you suggest IEOR as a possibility, or a more possible double with mechE?</p>
<p>Im interested in getting an MBA, but the average age at most bussiness schools is 28 and I dont want to wait that long to get into bussiness.</p>
<p>tivesrx, I think it's common to get 2-5 years of experience, but not having an MBA doesn't mean you can't get into business, just that many upper-management jobs won't be available to you- but that's the case for almost all employees, especially those that are new. The better the experience the better your chances of getting into a top MBA program.</p>
<p>"Student, is also possible he did summer school or took classes at other schools during high school or his time at Berkeley."</p>
<p>It looks like he did an internship every summer:
"The summer before starting Cal, he was a software engineer for Flextronics International; another two summers working on software for Microsoft cemented his computer science skills. This summer, he’s heading to Goldman Sachs in New York to strengthen his business talents."</p>
<p>And in his own words:
"And lastly, don’t do summer school unless you have to. Go travel, do research, or get a job and experience the real world. You won’t regret it."</p>
<p>Wow, EECS and Haas. Now that's a Berkeley education.</p>
<p>Well, I suppose maybe you could do it in 5 years. That schedule still looks too hard to me, for a freshman at least.</p>