Congrats on your admits SimpleLife89! I apologize for just getting around to this as my family has been stuck home with COVID and I am just getting caught up.
As Nikhil stated, I am a 1st year student in the MSQM program at Fuqua. I just finished up the following courses:
-Programming for Data Analytics and Visualization
-Business Fundamentals: Marketing and Strategy
-Managerial Economics
Fuqua has a unique way of doing the courses. This is a sample breakdown:
Week 1: Programming for Data Analytics and Visualization
Week 2: Managerial Economics and Strategy
Week 3: Programming
Week 4: Econ and Strategy
Continued alternation through 12 weeks. This allowed us a break from the courses to learn the material before piling more on top of it. Marketing and Strategy was a co-taught course with a Professor Mary Frances Luce and Professor Scott Rockart. Every week, we had about 1-2 hours of recorded lectures to watch and then we met on Saturday morning for live lectures. Fuqua spent a lot of money and time getting this program ready and it truly shows. They have a room dedicated solely to the administering of online lectures.
The programming course was learning R for analysis and ggplots2 for the visualization in RStudio. For Python analysis, we used Jupyter Notebooks and then Pandas for visualization in it. We had about 3 individual coding assignments, 3 group assignment, midterm group project and a individual coding final project. It was intense but I learned A LOT.
As stated, Marketing and Strategy was co-taught and was case based in terms of lectures and assignments.
Managerial Economics was case based for discussion. We had 6 individual assignments and final exam. The final made up 65% of our grade.
Overall, I would choose this program 10/10 times given the opportunity to do so. I do agree with Regenerate in that this program is designed to help you lead a team of analysts by understanding how to do the analysis and how to implement it to make effective data-driven business decisions whereas the Tepper MSBA will teach you more so how to do the analysis. As Dean Bill Boulding told us in orientation, the MSQM is a more technical MBA-type degree.
If you would like to speak more in depth about the program, you could always reach out to Ed Anderson and he will get you in touch with me or another student for you to just sit and ask all the questions you may have.
Congrats again! I look forward to hearing your decision!
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