<p>Do students majoring in Industrial Engineering get a more lenient stance on GPA when applying for graduate school?</p>
<p>And for students majoring in Industrial Engineering, is it better to intern in business-related internships or engineering-related internships?</p>
<p>GPA leniency is more dependent on the difficulty of the school (ie if you went to MIT or Berkeley undergrad). As for internships, they don't matter to MBA admission committees.</p>
<p>But still doesn't the major still have to do with GPA leniency? </p>
<p>In my case I want to apply for the University of Arkansas graduate school of business. They prefer GPA's of 3.4 and higher. I'm majoring in IE and have a GPA of 3.25. Shouldn't that have some sort of leniency because it is typically a harder major than others?</p>
<p>But MBA admission committees do look at work experience. Don't internships qualify under work experience? </p>
<p>Or did you just mean the type of internship doesn't matter?</p>
<p>Arkansas is not going to be highly selective. The avg gpa I have seen for there is 3.27. In other words, you are already at avg.</p>
<p>As for your major, about 1/4th to 1/3rd of a school's class will be composed of engineering majors. Many of the other students had difficult majors also.</p>
<p>MBA admission committees look for post-graduate work experience, not internships. It sounds like you are young and in a rush. I'd advice you to wait a while and get into a better program than Arkansas if possible. The latest salary statistics for Arkansas (from their website) is only $59,224 avg. salary (2005). I would keep your options open if possible.</p>
<p>Like Vectorwega said, engineering majors make up a great deal of MBA students, so I doubt there will be much leniency. Either way, there are always going to be people with high GPAs from engineering that apply for MBA programs. </p>
<p>Anyway, from VectorWega's stats, it looks like an MBA from Arkansas may not even give a return on investment worth the price of attendance. You may want to look at better MBA schools.</p>
<p>And by the way, at my school, industrial engineering is considered the easiest of all engineering majors, and where most turn to when they can't make it in the other engineering majors.</p>