Will these courses help
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on 6/3/12 at 3:57pm
Hi, im going for my third year in econ and finance, with the following courss:
Intermediate Macro
Intermediate Micro
Intermediate Econometrics
Game theory
Mathematical econ
Intro to econ research
Financial management
Intro to programming(Python and Eclipse)
Financial Math
As you can see I took most of my electives in math based courses, I just wanna know if they will help me if I were to work in IB, and which courses I should really concentrate on?
Thanks





Very few courses are relevant
Very few courses are relevant to IB experience, imo...everything can be learned on the job (this is coming from someone who took zero finance courses in college). What will help, however, is learning how to think critically, attention to detail, and the ability to research effectively (i.e. google well). IB doesn't require lots of fancy math or economics/econometrics, but understanding how economies function and being able to work with numbers helps.
I would say take the courses you are interested in, because once you start IB you won't have much time to study new things.
All they do is to demonstrate
All they do is to demonstrate your interest in finance. Like anaismalcom says, very few courses are relevant to IB experience.
I would say accounting classes are the most useful to prep for your interviews.
Can you do more programming?
Can you do more programming? Wish I had done more of that.
I agree take the programming
I agree take the programming
Thanks for the replies, just
Thanks for the replies, just one question related to programming, I just have 2 more years left, so I wont be able to take that many courses in it, just a handful. My plan is to take an intro course this year, and 1 or 2 courses in C language in my final year. But do they use C?
Abarrage: Thanks for the
Thanks for the replies, just one question related to programming, I just have 2 more years left, so I wont be able to take that many courses in it, just a handful. My plan is to take an intro course this year, and 1 or 2 courses in C language in my final year. But do they use C?
I don't know any IB'ers who program on the job, but I'm learning outside of work myself. It's awesome, a useful skill for modern times, and if you do anything related to tech companies it can be helpful to understand better what exactly they do (in some cases).