MSCI 263Managerial Economics
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Last listed
- Spring 2024
No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2024 and last ran in Spring 2024. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.
When it ran
- S20
- S21
- S22
- S23
- S24
Ran in 5 terms, Spring 2020 to Spring 2024.
This course introduces students to key concepts in microeconomics, with an emphasis on applications to managerial decision-making. Topics include basic analysis of supply and demand, demand functions and the theory of consumer behaviour, production and costs, market equilibrium, competition between industry participants, and pricing strategies of firms under different market structures. [Offered: S]
Requirements, as last listed
Antireq: ECON 101, 201
Discussed on r/uwaterloo
8 posts and comments in 6 threads mention MSCI 263, April 2021 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Winter 2024
What assignment/course was your ‘white whale’ 20 points, 11 comments
“What assignment almost broke you and made you drop out? I am (not) working on mine rn 🥲”
u/1000Ditto: “msci 263 couldnt do a single question on the final, whole pages blank”
Winter 2023
Biggest disaster of a course you have ever been in and why? 82 points, 30 comments
“In honor of stat231, share the biggest clusterfuck of a course you have ever taken and why. Mine isn’t super bad but ENVS278 this semester lost 1/3 of the class between first and second midterm, …”
u/1000Ditto: “they had to boost msci 263 about 20-30% and people still failed test 1: 70 (questions were later found copied from a 3rd party website) test 2: 70 (questions were later found copied from a 3rd party website) test 3: 40 (questions made 0 sense) test 4: 40 (questions made 0 sense) …”
Fall 2022
It’s time to rename management eng/mgmt/MGTE 167 points, 24 comments
“The current name has several issues: It gives the wrong idea. People assume the curriculum is similar to BBA programs, which leads to high schoolers who are mainly interested in …”
u/1000Ditto: “shelling this post more than xierumeng shells his blog: https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/r824fg/oc\if\i\had\a\dollar\every\time\i\needed\to/?utm\source=share&utm\medium=web2x&context=3”
u/1000Ditto: “… like uh Basic Accounting/finance that's not just equations that literally spell out PAIN msci 263 = maybe prof onay would realize that something's wrong if every term he has to curve the class average about 15% (apparently he forgot all the multiple choice in the printer for the …”
Spring 2022
Anyone take MSCI 263 or 411? 1 point, 0 comments
u/linkluke18: “Considering taking msci 263 or msci 411. Has anybody taken these courses? How are they?”
Winter 2021
MSCI 263 6 points, 5 comments
u/2percentleft: “Can someone who took MSCI 263 provide insight to the difficulty and type of assignments in this course? Is it a bird course? UWFlow makes it seem hard, but there are barely any reviews.”
u/1000Ditto: “msci 261 fucking destroyed my ass and msci263 looks like msci 261 on steroids”
u/2percentleft: “ah fuck... looks like i won't be taking msci 263 as my elective. bet 320 gang let's go”
Management Engineering 10 points, 14 comments
u/1000Ditto: “… ok depending on you as a person, one of the easiest, be wary of 3b esp msci332, me 235, msci 261, msci 263 2. pm/data/general business/basic mech stuff/ programming 3. …”
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 2023–24Its last calendar entry, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them