If you are strong in engineering and calculus, then I would not recommend calculus or statistics. Instead, I think you should focus on some of the less intuitive business classes:

- Accounting (please take accounting if you have not had exposure to it before; and, if you can, take a class that requires you to do the ledger and actually convert the ledger into a balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement. I was SO glad I had done this before business school!!!).

- Microeconomics, ideally calculus based (i.e., at the advanced undergrad level; intro micro is probably not going to be be very useful to you).

- Finance: if you can get the intuition of finance up front, then the business school class will be a snap.

I'm afraid I don't know a good online course but perhaps the University of Phoenix (a well-known on-line university) has some interesting options. If not, I would check out my local community college or undergraduate school that allows you to study part-time or as a non-degree student.

Finally, if you can only take one: take accounting!!

Good luck and let me know your thoughts--

Paxton

Hey, thanks a ton for that! I guess I'll try and take the accounting course then. One more question- your thoughts on the MSc management in some UK and US universities? For me sitting in India, it is very hard to gauge how hard it is to get into these universities, being an Indian engineer. And thanks again

I'm not super-familiar with the MSc degrees in management; but, my guess is that the classic MBA is going to be the hardest for general management type stuff. Some of the more specialized programs (UCLA and some other schools have recently launched financial engineering degrees though I can't remember off the type of my head if they are MSc's or not) are difficult because they are very very specialized and have very technical requirements.

Paxton