# Program Prerequisites

## Program Prerequisites

## Math

Before beginning the MBA program, students are expected to possess knowledge in the math topics below:

- **Data Relations** (equalities and inequalities, absolute value, ratios, fractions, summation notation)
- **Functions &amp; Graphs** (linear functions, nonlinear functions, summation notation)
- **Systems of Equations**
- **Exponents** (the law of exponents, quadratic formula)
- **Logarithms** (compound interest and e, exponential growth, natural logarithms)
- Familiarity with **basic calculus** (at the level of taking derivatives of polynomial expressions and using first-order conditions to determine maxima and minima)
