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aka the best funded mathematical discipline. It can be used for good, or utter bureaucratic evil.
by mahmud 16y ago
aka the best funded mathematical discipline. It can be used for good, or utter bureaucratic evil.
- lunchbox 16y agoHave you found it to be well funded? I loved my college OR classes, but when I recruited for jobs I found that mathematical finance and mathematical CS were significantly more marketable (they have overlaps with OR but are not the same). http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos044.htm http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos044.htm
- mahmud 16y agoThose two have better job markets, but OR has better funding possibilities. For OR, you can send your grant application to any mid-large corporation, promising to optimize one of their many messed up business processes and you get yourself a $50k on the spot. Go to any decent campus and look around. OR people are usually older, with MBAs, and better healed financially. I worked for a few as a software developer (yeah, grad students who can afford to hire a software developer at market rates!)