<p>Is calculus required to get into an MBA program? Can you take a summer course prior to MBA program just to fulfill the requirements then? And is Calculus ever used after your MBA or a part of your success?</p>
<p>I haven't taken calculus in college? am i in huge trouble?</p>
<p>You will need calculus, and yes calculus is used in the real world. I use it now, and don’t have an MBA. I can imagine that it’s use would depend on the job you want/get.</p>
<p>you don’t use calculus for any MBA class but some programs like Wharton would at least like to see math at the Calc AB level.</p>
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<p>Nope. No regular MBA program, not even a highly technical one such as MIT Sloan’s(!), actually requires knowledge of calculus. The required courses are all taught assuming that you don’t know calculus. </p>
<p>Granted, calculus knowledge would be highly useful, especially if you want to delve into the deeper electives on finance or competitive strategy. But if you don’t care about that, then you don’t actually need calculus.</p>
<p>isn’t calc an admissions requirement sakky? i mean will prestigious programs expect you to have completed the course or that most students do?</p>
<p>aren’t the students you compete with more quant heavy in calculus also, engineers and economists?</p>
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<p>Nope. Like I said, I am not aware of a single top MBA program - not even MIT’s - that actually requires calculus as an admissions requirement. </p>
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<p>It is probably true that most students at the top schools will have completed calculus; I also think that calculus is something everybody should learn anyway to be a well-educated person. However, strictly speaking, you don’t actually need it to be admitted. </p>
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<p>Many will be, but many others won’t. MBA programs draw students from the sweep of business functions. Many students were salesmen. Others were marketers. Still others were HR people. You don’t really need to know calculus for those jobs.</p>
<p>Sakky is incorrect. Duke MBA requires a college calculus course prior to matriculation.</p>
<p>From Fuqua website</p>
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<p>Ok, fine, one top MBA program requires calculus.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the point is that the vast majority of MBA programs do not require calculus. If you don’t have calculus, don’t go to Fuqua.</p>