MGMTMSA 403Optimization
Management-Master of Science in Business Analytics · 2 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Limited to Master of Science in Business Analytics students. Introductory course in optimization. Introduction to modeling and spreadsheet modeling, linear programming, logistics and network programming, integer programming, and non-linear programming. Emphasis on model building and solving problems using Excel-based solvers.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.