<p>Does any one know the rigor of this? Have any of you taken OR courses?</p>
<p>It's reputed to be the "easiest engineering major" but it's still engineering (which is relatively difficult).</p>
<p>However, isn't it a track toward investment banking and such? Also, does anyone know how successful the graduates of this program are?</p>
<p>Yes, it's engineering with a business spin. They're very successful.</p>
<p>(The majority of Fortune 500 CEOs have engineering degrees!)</p>
<p>I used to be an ECE, that was hard. ORIE is laughably easy. You can get A+'s and not go to class, especially if Callister teaches it.</p>
<p>so is operations research major a good track toward i-banking, or analyst jobs on wall street, or with companies like citigroup</p>
<p>yeah, im thinking about this now.......</p>
<p>Read up and learn more, the site is good:
<a href="http://www.orie.cornell.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.orie.cornell.edu/</a></p>
<p>yea, the site is pretty good. However, the site presents a biased view, which is that of constantly putting the program in a good limelight, most likely due to the fact that it's advertising this program. Therefore, I was wondering if anyone had some criticism of this program that they would like to voice?</p>
<p>I believe their graduates receive the lowest average salaries of all the engineering majors. Not substantially lower, but somebody's got to be last.</p>
<p>Well if they go into ibanking, I'm sure thier bonuses bring thier overall compensation to about 100k, opposed to engineer's 50-60k.</p>
<p>would a financial analyst be a possible career which results from this field?</p>
<p>I am getting so confused. At first I wanted to be a Chem E major, with an engineering management minor. However, a short while ago I wanted to go into Operations Research, because of the possibility of being able to be a financial analyst or an i-banker at some place like Citigroup. However, then I looked at student profiles for ORIE, and it seemed like the students were doing little in terms of finance, but the ChemE students were at Merck & Co. On top of that I keep on second guessing myself over whether or not an ORIE person can really compete against econ & undergrad business majors for finance positions. However, when it comes to ChemE, there seems to be no relation to finance, however everyone says the field is good. </p>
<p>Then I think that if I do ChemE with Engineering Management then I can land a really good position at P&G, BASF, Dow Chemicals, Siemens. However, I don't want to be stuck, because I hear that it's mostly the people in accounting that get to advance up the corporate ladder. Basically, it's my intention to not end being in a laboratory or academia research or stuck in some go nowhere crap job. </p>
<p>However, I am also dissuaded from ChemE because of the amount of courses. It seems to me that it leaves no room for econ, business or finance courses. Also, I fear that the heavy workload will stifle my ability to have extra-activities, which will only hurt me when I go and look for jobs or internships. Also, the lack of space means that I might not be able to get the better positions at P&G, Dow, BASF or Siemens. </p>
<p>I just don't want to major in something that's an end all; ChemE remaining a ChemE, or an ORIE doing boring junk work like airline distribution, I want something that allows some econ & business to flow in, allows time for extra activities and has good openings for jobs. (As you can tell I am kind of confused :( )</p>
<p>What about ORIE+Econ double? Or ChemE with a minor?</p>
<p>can you do that? I know you can minor withe Chem E, but for Econ you would have to cross over to A&S (i don't know if that is allowed)</p>
<p>however, I found these links for ORIE:
<a href="http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/engineering-coop-career-services/students/upload/ORIE%20-%20BS%20-%2005.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/engineering-coop-career-services/students/upload/ORIE%20-%20BS%20-%2005.pdf</a>
<a href="http://www.collegeconfidential.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?57277/54887%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeconfidential.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?57277/54887</a></p>
<p>and this one for Chem E
<a href="http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/engineering-coop-career-services/students/upload/Chemical%20Engineering%20-%20BS-%2005.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/engineering-coop-career-services/students/upload/Chemical%20Engineering%20-%20BS-%2005.pdf</a></p>
<p>it seems to me that here ChemE blows in terms of job placements</p>
<p>These pages should be interesting and useful to you.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/academic-advising/engineering-handbook/2005/index.cfm%5B/url%5D">http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/academic-advising/engineering-handbook/2005/index.cfm</a>
(scroll down to Engineering Minors)</p>
<p>and</p>