15 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Intro sequences

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

• 1. 15.401Managerial Finance
  2. 15.402Corporate Finance
• 1. 15.511Financial Accounting
  2. 15.414Financial Management
• 1. 15.060Data, Models, and Decisions
  2. 6.3700Introduction to Probability
  3. 15.761Introduction to Operations Management
• 1. 15.069Applied Probability and Statistics
  2. 6.3700Introduction to Probability
  3. 15.075[J] Statistical Thinking and Data Analysis

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 15 coursework.

• 15.414Financial Managementopens 25 courses (24 directly)
• 15.402Corporate Financeopens 6 courses (6 directly)
• 15.761Introduction to Operations Managementopens 6 courses (6 directly)
• 6.7210[J] Introduction to Mathematical Programmingopens 4 courses (4 directly)
• 15.075[J] Statistical Thinking and Data Analysisopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• 18.650[J] Fundamentals of Statisticsopens 2 courses (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 15 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 192 15 and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 302 more 15 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 15. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at 15.0711

  1. 6.100AIntroduction to Computer Science Programming in Python
  2. 1.00Engineering Computation and Data Science
  3. 15.053Optimization Methods in Business Analytics
  4. 15.0711The Analytics Edge

• 4 courses deep, ending at 15.466

  1. 15.511Financial Accounting
  2. 15.414Financial Management
  3. 15.433Financial Markets

• 4 courses deep, ending at 15.C08

  1. 18.600Probability and Random Variables
  2. 18.650[J] Fundamentals of Statistics
  3. 14.32Econometric Data Science

• 3 courses deep, ending at 15.062

  1. 15.069Applied Probability and Statistics
  2. 15.075[J] Statistical Thinking and Data Analysis
  3. 15.062[J] Data Mining: Finding the Models and Predictions that Create Value

Grade medians

Professors

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Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under 15 yet.

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