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Totally agree, calculus is a prerequisite for understanding statistics, unless you're just plugging in numbers for an A-B test - and you don't really need a class to do that.

Linear Algebra is very useful too, but it's not really fair to say one is more valuable than another. It just depends on what kinds of applications you end up working on. Universities should just teach both.

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Many interesting things require a combination of more than one area of math. I don't understand how you can do much within robotics or vision without using all three of calculus, linear algebra, and statistics :)

I'll go even further and state that without an understanding of calculus, linear algebra, and statistics, an engineer or even a data scientist is little more than a glorified script kiddy.

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