<p>Right now, I'm doing a math/economics major at UT with some concentration in CS. I'm heavily thinking of doing Industrial Engineering for masters. From what I've heard, I think the math and CS should be good for opening up the possibility of IE. </p>
<p>But recently I've been thinking dropping the math major to a statistics minor. I think I can handle math fine, but I want to take more electives in other fields like philosophy or business. I would still be taking a lot of math this way, but I'll be losing some of the classes like abstract algebra and complex variables, etc. I plan to go up to Real Analysis. </p>
<p>I've been told that doing a math major and then industrial engineering is a very known route. Would reducing my math change this? Do I need more math for IE?</p>
<p>For IE at my school the math we typically take:</p>
<p>Calc 1-3
-Some take Calc 4 but it’s not required
Linear Algebra
Stats (a few courses - stats minor should cover it)
Markov Processes
Linear Programming</p>
<p>In addition I took analysis. I think I may take combinatorics too. A lot of what we do is applied math.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot. I was also planning to take Number Theory and Numerical Analysis. I think that covers combinatorics and linear programming, but not sure. I will probably need to add Stochastic processes to my degree plan.</p>
<p>Now that I think about it, this probably would have been more appropriate in the Business Majors forum.</p>
<p>Number Theory and Numerical Analysis probably won’t cover the equivalent of Combinatorics and Linear Programming. You should be looking for courses in optimization.</p>
<p>I’ll ask my advisor, but I don’t know if these are offered in undergrad.</p>
<p>Take the grad ones then. </p>
<p>It’s not necessary that you take all of these classes as an undergrad to get a masters. You’ll take them as a masters student. People go into IE from all different disciplines.</p>
<p>Okay, that makes sense. Thanks!</p>
<p>the stochastic processes is really important and probably my favorite class as an IE.</p>
<p>A Math major should BREEZE through most IE MS programmes (math wise)… An OR concentration would require the most math, and for that, I’d say you really need 1) Probability Theory (for Stochastic 1/2) from Math dept 2) Linear Algebra (for Optimization). Some sort of programming might be useful since some optimization teachers use software (CPLEX, Lindo, etc). You DO NOT need analysis, algebra, or just about any ‘serious math course’ (dunno about PhD, but definitely not for MS). I doubt a Mathematical Statistics class, or maybe a rigorous Linear Algebra class would hurt, but not really a must.</p>