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It's critical that you at least get 3 or 4 business courses in your program that are very similar to the 7 areas needed for admission to an MBA program (with the 7 being accounting, finance, economics, marketing, operations or organizational management, statistics and human resources).
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<p>Uh, I wasn't aware that there were any areas that you 'need' for admission to an MBA program. In fact, a know a large number of people who are either current MBA students or who graduated from MBA programs who had never taken a single course in any of those areas that you mentioned prior to their MBA. In fact, I was just talking to a woman who is currently an MBA student at MITSloan whose did her undergrad in Classics at Harvard and had thus never taken a single course in any of those 7 areas prior to MIT. So if you need to take courses in those areas in order to get admitted, well, I guess somebody forgot to tell that to her, and somebody forgot to tell that to MIT.</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong. I think some of those areas can be useful to study. But do you "need" them to get admitted. I don't know about that.</p>