The coursework contains sparring, both armed and unarmed, with various partners to give the student exposure to opponents of various skill and strength levels.
Both degree types, though, emphasize quantitative topics, and may also offer some non-quantitative elective coursework, such as corporate governance, business ethics and business strategy.
Coursework emphasizes the applied and interdisciplinary fields of empirical methods and statistics, economics, information systems and technology, operations research, and organizational behavior.
Independent research is supported by seminars and lectures, and assessment is typically by coursework as well as by examination papers and dissertation.