<p>Why have I never heard of this program? It seems like an ideal degree for those interested in business, yet it seems to be left out when people talk about AEM, ILR, PAM, and Hotel. Does anyone have any experience or information about this program?</p>
<p>How hard is it to internally transfer into it?</p>
<p>It's pretty well known. Everybody who wants to work for a hedge fund is in it. </p>
<p>It depends how good you are at Math.</p>
<p>If you have a high GPA in whatever college you are in, its pretty easy to transfer in internally...but you'll probably have to be prepared to stay an extra semester or year to get caught up in the engineering curriculum.</p>
<p>I was under the impression that it was fairly well-known. I think that a lot of people who are interested purely in business don't want to go through with the engineering curriculum, especially the required math and physics. You sort of have to be an engineer.</p>
<p>This major used to be known as Operations Research and Industrial Engineering. It is part of the Engineering College and requires all the math and science base courses as the other engineering majors. This degree is more technical business related. When I graduated from the program (many years ago) a large number of graduates went on to both B-school and consulting careers.</p>
<p>I was an OR&IE major at Cornell a million years ago. I had never heard of OR before I arrived at Cornell either. I definately was a math/science guy in HS which is why I applied to engineering schools. When I started engineering course I found the courses about making/designing things Ok ... but I found the OR courses compelling. OR uses my math/analytical skills on business problems ... for ME a much better fit than using the skills on things. While being an OR/IE shared an element of undergrad business majors ... it was definatlely different with the focus on analytical techniques and principles to apply to business problems.</p>