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EDA or OR?

Gawdany

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I am currently an undergraduate student at Georgia Tech studying Industrial and Systems Engineering. I want to study financial engineering in the future, and I was wondering which track within Industrial Engineering will prepare me best for an MFE program. The two tracks offered I am interested in are Economic Decision Analysis (Economic/Financial Modeling) or Operations Research and Statistics Track. Both are heavily math oriented, and both seem to be good preparation for MFE. Thanks in advance for your help.
 
Looking at the different tracks briefly (as they are fairly complex to an outsider), I would say it matters less which track you take and more what electives you take.

Some electives that sound promising are:

Econ 3150 - Econ & Fin Modeling
Mgmt 3078 - Fin and Investments
ISyE 4031 - Regression & Forecasting
CS/ISyE 4245 - Intro Data Mining
Math 4262 - Math Statistics II
ISyE 4133 - Adv Optimization
ISyE 4803 - Adv Simulation
ISyE 4803 - Adv Stochastics
 
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