<p>I was wondering: What are the recommended courses for pre-MBA students?</p>
<p>BUMP…I would like to know this also. What would be helpful?</p>
<p>Bumping again. Anyone?</p>
<p>Right now I’m reading “The 10 Day MBA” by Steven Silbiger… good book so far. Basically an overview of what you learn in your first year of b-school.</p>
<p>It really isn’t that important, but off the top of my head I would say a couple of econ courses, a statistics course or two, a couple of accounting courses, and other quantitative courses would be helpful.</p>
<p>How do people with non-business-related undergrad majors do with econ, and accounting courses? Business grad school has all kinds of people from engineers to health professionals to fine arts and liberal arts majors. How do they get along? Do they expect you to have some basic body of knowledge of econ and accounting?</p>
<p>It depends, some schools require you to take certain prereqs others don’t. Calculus, Macro, Micro, & Statistics are the common ones though.</p>
<p>I’m an engineer; wasn’t required to take macro or micro, but needed the quant background. People in my class who have struggled are weak in math. I have generally seen math requirements as prereqs</p>
<p>Hey Japher, were you able to easily keep up with subjects such as econ, finance and accounting as an engineer? Statistics was probably a piece of cake, I imagine.</p>
<p>Statistics really was a breeze. You only need a little logic for the first half of it and the second half got a little more difficult with St.Div. but overall an easy course compared to college algebra.</p>
<p>Econ and Fin were fine, accounting was somewhat more difficult but I still did fine in the courses.</p>
<p>Knowledge of financial accounting would help. Mental Maths can later on help in real business situations.</p>
<p>Many business schools hold a pre-term session that includes classes in all of the basic areas --finance, accounting, etc. A majority of my business school class attended, either to learn information for the first time, as a refresher or to just get back into the rhythm of attending school after so many years in the workforce.</p>
<p>My son’s program has this pre-term session. Is it meant to be an information-leveling device so that everybody is starting with the same minimum level of knowledge?</p>
<p>One important thing to know, is that good-or-better business schools will expect an academic foundation in business. If you don’t have a BBA or some business major for your Bachelor’s degree, most schools will either require you to complete a ‘foundation set’ of business courses (Management, Accounting, Finance, & Marketing in most cases) or will not accept your application at all.</p>