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Hi, I'm currently a third year industrial engineering student at a Swedish university. In Sweden industrial engineering is a very popular engineering major and they have the highest salaries but from what I've heard industrial engineers are often looked down upon in the US. The thing is I'm very interested in working in finance in the US (I'm a citizen) and in my program (MSc in industrial engineering) there is a financial engineering concentration you can choose.
I have taken fairly many math courses up until now, (multidimensional analysis, linear algebra, analytic functions, system and transformation, probability/statistics, optimization, operations research, numerical analysis, stochastic processes) and of course engineering courses such as mechanics, physics and a couple of manufacturing courses etc. My question is will recruiters actually go through and look at what courses you have taken or will they just look at the resume and see "industrial engineer - oh that is a soft major"?
I can change major to engineering mathematics (which also has financial engineering concentration) but I would in that case probably have to prolong my graduation by atleast half a year. Though engineering mathematics would also give me much more options than finance if things wouldn't work out plus it would allow me to take a few extra math courses before starting the finance concentration. A down side is that it would be a real hassle to change because I will be doing a year abroad at a US uni next year.
Cheers!
I have taken fairly many math courses up until now, (multidimensional analysis, linear algebra, analytic functions, system and transformation, probability/statistics, optimization, operations research, numerical analysis, stochastic processes) and of course engineering courses such as mechanics, physics and a couple of manufacturing courses etc. My question is will recruiters actually go through and look at what courses you have taken or will they just look at the resume and see "industrial engineer - oh that is a soft major"?
I can change major to engineering mathematics (which also has financial engineering concentration) but I would in that case probably have to prolong my graduation by atleast half a year. Though engineering mathematics would also give me much more options than finance if things wouldn't work out plus it would allow me to take a few extra math courses before starting the finance concentration. A down side is that it would be a real hassle to change because I will be doing a year abroad at a US uni next year.
Cheers!