<p>I just got accepted from USC engineering school.
And Im thinking industrial engineering is the closest one to financial engineering.
Would it be a good preparation for programs like MFE? FE?</p>
<p>be sure to pick up a math minor and go even farther with the stats than required.</p>
<p>I was under impression that i wanted to attend MFE masters in the future i was going to complete math major for undergrad, anyway i changed my mind.</p>
<p>A Math and CS major/minor seems to be the best preparation. FE is at least 60% programming.</p>
<p>I agree with Lacero, the best combination is double major in CS and Math. But if you have to either go with one, doing CS is the best as you have to do a lot of programming and you get to take man math classes that are relevant to FE. I believe if you want to be an expert in FE field, math in IE is not intensive enough. FE is purely math and programming. However if you really want to do IE, just do a minor in math and take several programming classes.</p>
<p>Browsing the course catalogue at my school it looks like IEs take courses like:</p>
<p>Stochastic Processes
Simulation
Optimization
Financial Engineering</p>
<p>Those sound like topics useful for those going into financial engineering.</p>
<p>If I Major Industrial Engineering and get a minor in both computer science and math I will be prepare for a Financial Engineering MS?. Which math should I focus on, Analytical or Probability and Statistics.</p>
<p>geez, this is stupid. it’s not the denomination of the degree that counts, it’s the courses that really matters.</p>
<p>Agree with icebox4… all it matters is the courses you take… you dont even have to do a minor in CS or Math… as long as you take related classes as elective…eg. Analysis Math courses (Numerical Method, Real Analysis) also Partial Differential Equation and Stat&Probability… CS courses (Data Structure, Object Oriented Programming)… and IE electives which most school don’t require as some of these classes are hard…(Stochastic Processes/Calculus, Financial Engineering, Optimization, Simulation)…I bet if you do those classes and you are expert in those staff… you can even get a Financial Engineer job right after college with a Master Degree…I know my ECE friend who got a job as a Financial Engineer right after college at Chicago Trading Company by taking those courses…</p>
<p>yea dat is wut i meant that courses for IE fit to FE more than any other majors in engineering school. Since i got accepted to engineering school, i am narrowing down the choice.
i was thinking about math/econ major, but heard engineering majors have more non-theoretial high math. But thx everyone :]</p>