GSB at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. GSB 5518Essential Statistics for Business Analytics
  2. ECON 5029Econometrics and Data Analysis
• 1. GSB 5505Financial Accounting
  2. GSB 5511Accounting for Managers
• 1. GSB 5575Career Development for Business Analytics I
  2. GSB 5576Career Development for Business Analytics II

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate GSB coursework.

• ECON 5021Advanced Econometrics Iopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• ECON 5029Econometrics and Data Analysisopens 2 courses (1.5 directly)
• GSB 5511Accounting for Managersopens 2 courses (0.5 directly)
• GSB 5576Career Development for Business Analytics IIopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ECON 5022Advanced Econometrics IIopens 1 course (0.5 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate GSB work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 32 GSB and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 18 more GSB courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in GSB. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at GSB 5551

  1. ECON 5020Essential Statistics for Econometrics
  2. ECON 5021Advanced Econometrics I
  3. ECON 5022Advanced Econometrics II
  4. GSB 5551Prescriptive Analytics

• 3 courses deep, ending at GSB 5517

  1. ECON 5020Essential Statistics for Econometrics
  2. ECON 5029Econometrics and Data Analysis
  3. GSB 5517Strategic People Analytics

• 3 courses deep, ending at GSB 5562

  1. GSB 5505Financial Accounting
  2. GSB 5511Accounting for Managers
  3. GSB 5562Strategy in the Global Environment

• 3 courses deep, ending at GSB 5577

  1. GSB 5575Career Development for Business Analytics I
  2. GSB 5576Career Development for Business Analytics II
  3. GSB 5577Career Development for Business Analytics III

Grade medians

Professors

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Clubs & organizations

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