u/Resident-Ad9948

Wondering if there are any graduates from the Advanced Analytics in Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering Concentration or any of the other Industrial Engineering Master programs (Financial Engineering, Systems Engineer, etc.) from UIUC.

I am currently an Electrical Engineer and want to get into consulting at really any consulting firm. Wondering if anyone else has found any success in getting a masters in Industrial Eng and landed a position with any boutique or large consulting firms.

Personally, I am thinking about joining the masters IE program instead of the ECE masters and I wanted to focus on the analytical IE track to leverage that to become an analytical consultant.

Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Background: Hello I am 26 y/o in the US with a decent salary. I invest about $750 a month in broad market ETFs in my Roth IRA. The $750 I invest is after investing in my employers 401k upto the match.

I want to start investing a little amount into dividend ETFs like $SCHD or $VIG. My question is what allocation % would/should someone my age put into dividend ETFs. I am adamant about starting the snowball effect of dividends ETFs. I am unsure what allocation % I should follow so would like to see what is best.