Brown COE?

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<p>I stumbled upon this while browsing the Brown website ([Commerce</a>, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship](<a href=“Welcome | Business, Entrepreneurship and Organizations”>http://coe.brown.edu/)). I’ve never heard of this before, but a quick glance through the site seems like it’s pretty good. I know Brown’s Applied Math is very good (a family friend (used?) to be a professor) but I’ve heard that its econ is good, but not great? Dunno, never really thought of Brown as being big on econ/finance.</p>

<p>Google doesn’t yield very much info. But it looks like basically, it’s just a group of classes. If I complete this then I get a BA in COE. But could I also get a BA in Econ or some engineering discipline (eg CS)?</p>

<p>Sorry, I’m not very familiar with Brown, but this program looks intriguing!</p>

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<p>Yes, you could double-concentrate in COE (I think it’s now called BOE starting this year) and another subject. You’d probably have more difficulty doing it with engineering, due to the extensive engineering requirements, but I bet it’s doable.</p>

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<p>Though you can’t do the Business Econ track and double concentrate in Econ, since the requirements are too similar.</p>

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<p>Interesting. I assume the B in BOE is Business?
How is the job placement for COE? It seems that there are good internship opportunities, but I can’t find a ‘senior report’ like other schools have.</p>

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<p>+1</p>

<p>I’m interested in this program as well. How do you decide which track to take?</p>

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<p>You decide what track depending on what you’re most interested in, typically.</p>

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<p>bumping before i visit</p>

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<p>If you’re interested in econ along with something more quant, the Applied-Math-Econ program is great. If you end up at Brown, you’re going to start off with the typical Economics sequence (Math, the intro class, Intermediate Micro/Macro, and 2 Econometrics courses). After that point, Econ and COE branch off: Econ requires 5 electives, while COE requires a few electives and several other core requirements (Sociology classes and Intro to Engineering).</p>

<p>I enrolled in one of the SOC classes that was required for COE and felt as though I was learning nothing. It’s a fluff-filled class that had a large roster of football players that refused to speak during section. It taught me to take courses I was genuinely interested in that promote participation, because being forced to sit in a required section at 9am when no one is speaking (other than myself) is, quite frankly, a waste of time.</p>

<p>As an Econ concentrator, I would say that taking the APMA-Econ route (or concentrating in Econ and taking courses in the Math/Applied Math department during your time here) would be a better idea. But apparently they revamped the COE requirements and hope to improve the classroom experience for those required courses. I guess time will tell.</p>

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<p>The COE/BOE concentration is a pretty cool program, actually.</p>

<p>You have to realize that it has a reputation as an “easy” concentration, due to the high volume of athletes and plainly just easier classes required, but that’s not to say at all that there isn’t a tremendously good deal that’s, well, good about it.</p>

<p>For starters, it’s pretty much the only concentration that they actually offer and aid you in the process of internships. You might end up doing private equity in Hong Kong, but that’s pretty awesome if you ask me. Outside of this program at Brown, you’re very much on your own in terms of academic aid in internships.</p>

<p>It’s also a phenomenal program if you’re really interested in the E part of it–entrepreneurship. Innovation is often a high input, low output approach to the world, but you really are going to be set up well to take off if you happen to come up with a truly great (or solid) idea. Plus you’ll get to get to deal with Professor Hazeltine, who, in his lucid moments, though they are occasionally far in between, will offer up some truly unforgettable things.</p>

<p>If you’re into the quant side, work at a bank-type of finance, then you’re probably going to want to shoot for Applied Mathematics-Economics. Our Applied Math program is pretty much as good as it gets across the country (assuming you can get away from Professor Spiliopoulos, who’s really one of the only duds in the department, now that Professor Lawrence is taking on more specific courses, and at least he was a true rock star in the field once upon a time), although our Economics department is kind of hit or miss and tends to be significantly stronger in softer economics (i.e. Behavioral Economics, Game Theory, that type of thing) than in more mathematical courses (i.e. Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives; Corporate Finance).</p>

<p>If you want to be an Investment Banker, don’t really bother with any mathy courses except for perhaps Investments and Corporate Finance. Concentrate in pure Economics, International Relations, or Political Science. Just boost up that GPA, work on talking, join a fraternity/sorority or show some athletic involvement and you’ll be in good shape.</p>