LWNagel

I am in a self-designed major focusing on the political and economic issues of energy and extraction, and I very much want to go into a mining engineering MS program. Given I am coming from a social science background, I am also taking many classes in geoscience, and math/physics including engineering statics. Do you think that this would be a good preparation for an MS in mining engineering (perhaps one on a mineral economics track)? I also know GIS, CAD, and some geological modeling. Thank you!

I am talking Harvard, Chicago, UCLA, Berkeley, Stanford, Yale, etc. this is assuming the applicant has a top PhD and good research. Additionally, and I might need to start a new thread for this – does anybody have any experience about transferring from a psychology division to a business division question, as a faculty member? Is it easier to just start in business? Do you need business experience first, even if you have work-oriented research?