<p>Is there anyway to study MSE and business (like an integrated degree or something similar to Penn's M&T program) at Columbia? How would I go about applying for something like this?</p>
<p>columbia doesn’t have a business major.</p>
<p>it does have an entrepreneurship minor in SEAS that might appeal to you.
[Interdisciplinary</a> Minor in Entrepreneurship | Center for Technology, Innovation and Community Engagement](<a href=“http://ctice.columbia.edu/content/interdisciplinary-minor-entrepreneurship]Interdisciplinary”>http://ctice.columbia.edu/content/interdisciplinary-minor-entrepreneurship)</p>
<p>you take courses in the b-school designed for undergrads and are encouraged to develop ideas.</p>
<p>so you could major in MSE and then do this minor program. all this entails is applying to Columbia Engineering (SEAS). you can then elect to do mse and the entrepreneurship minor when you get there. you should also mention this when you apply to columbia that this is your desire.</p>
<p>it certainly isn’t as cool sounding as M&T, but in effect it is pretty similar when you look at the curricula. plus columbia rocks, and unlike applying to M&T, you are welcome to change your mind and don’t feel like you have to do things.</p>
<p>wow! thank you so much! i don’t mind if it’s not the exactly same as m&t. that’s exactly what i’m looking for – thank you!</p>
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<p>yeah the M&T program, has kids studying MSE and Finance, because they want to work on wall street, this is gives good analytical skills for finance, but wastes the college student’s time in endless MSE courses. Or they have students major in MSE (insert other engineering) and management, which doesn’t really create a valuable combination. You aren’t managing people straight out of college if you work in something MSE related. Finally you have kids who major in MSE and entrepreneurship, which makes sense if you want to start something engineering related soon after college or work in a small start up, but here Columbia offers that same combination. If you come to Columbia and decide down the road that you want to work in finance (as happens to many) you can always study financial engineering, or operations research which has several finance classes.</p>