IDS at University of Illinois Chicago

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 IDS coursework.

• IDS 270Business Statistics I.opens 20 courses (5.7 directly)
• IDS 371Business Statistics II.opens 14 courses (7.2 directly)
• IDS 201Introduction to Business Programmingopens 10 courses (5.5 directly)
• IDS 355Operations Managementopens 7 courses (5.5 directly)
• IDS 331Business Analysis Using Spreadsheetsopens 7 courses (2.5 directly)
• ECON 300Econometricsopens 7 courses (1.2 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 IDS 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 94 IDS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 31 more IDS 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 IDS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at IDS 460

  1. MATH 160Finite Mathematics for Business
  2. IDS 270Business Statistics I.
  3. ACTG 392Data Analytics for Accountants
  4. IDS 462Statistical Software for Business Applications
  5. IDS 460Causal Inference

• 5 courses deep, ending at IDS 553

  1. MATH 160Finite Mathematics for Business
  2. IDS 270Business Statistics I.
  3. IDS 371Business Statistics II.

• 4 courses deep, ending at IDS 412

  1. IDS 200Intro to Management Information Systems
  2. IDS 201Introduction to Business Programming
  3. IDS 410Business Database Technology

• 4 courses deep, ending at IDS 450

  1. ENGL 161Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
  2. IDS 355Operations Management
  3. IDS 454Introduction to Supply Chain Management

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for IDS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under IDS yet.

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Department events

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