Tailor your programme with your choice of MBA electives
Dive deeper, Think bigger
To personalise your MBA programme, we offer you a choice of cutting-edge elective courses and skills-focussed modules designed to help you develop new business-critical knowledge or extend your existing expertise.
Your MBA, your choice
It is your MBA, so you choose the options which are best for your future. Following the completion of your core courses, you can tailor your programme to suit your individual needs, and interests. Choose from the electives below to deep dive into your areas of interest or explore new topics.
Depending on the options you choose, you can personalise your programme with 3 or 5 electives*.
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Try out our interactive MBA personaliser tool to build your very own MBA programme, incl. electives and specialisation track.
Elective: Macroeconomics
Understand the core concepts of macroeconomics – including data, theory and policy. This elective will enable you to understand and comment on some of the central macro debates and help you to comprehend the wider environment and constraints face governments and businesses worldwide.
Elective: Sales & Business Development
Understand how to organise and create growth of an effective sales and business development organisation and master critical skills and techniques to gain new business and retain existing customers. Examine and gain insights into the latest trends which are impacting and changing growth and revenue models.
Elective: Case Studies in Corporate Finance
Being able to examine in detail the basic valuation and investment decisions made by corporate financial decision-makers is a key skill needed by leaders and entrepreneurs. With an emphasis on the formulation and implementation of analytical financial solutions to corporate business problems and opportunities, this elective will help you to improve your analytical skills and financial decision-making and improve your communication skills for explaining analytical results.
Elective: Data Visualisation
In the Data Visualization elective, participants will be confronted with large amounts of data and the challenge of dealing with it. Understand, apply and practise the main approaches to data-driven decision making and tools for data visualization.
Participants are encouraged to take part in the yearly dataviz challenge.
Elective: Strategic Foresight
Imagine being able to step into the future and explore how you can repeat success, pinpoint your blind spots, and build confidence. Through a four-step process, this course will help you to become better prepared for an uncertain future. You will develop skills to scan for signals, explore a variety of plausible futures and craft winning strategies.
Elective: Agile Thinking
This elective course explores how organisations and teams can approach change, disruption and renewal through creative, bottom-up approaches to problem-solving under tight timeframes. Trying, testing and failing are all part of the agile mindset which can accelerate and enhance innovative processes.
*Please note that options may change and are subject to availability
Macroeconomics
Elective: Macroeconomics
Understand the core concepts of macroeconomics – including data, theory and policy. This elective will enable you to understand and comment on some of the central macro debates and help you to comprehend the wider environment and constraints face governments and businesses worldwide.
Sales & Business Development
Elective: Sales & Business Development
Understand how to organise and create growth of an effective sales and business development organisation and master critical skills and techniques to gain new business and retain existing customers. Examine and gain insights into the latest trends which are impacting and changing growth and revenue models.
Case Studies in Corporate Finance
Elective: Case Studies in Corporate Finance
Being able to examine in detail the basic valuation and investment decisions made by corporate financial decision-makers is a key skill needed by leaders and entrepreneurs. With an emphasis on the formulation and implementation of analytical financial solutions to corporate business problems and opportunities, this elective will help you to improve your analytical skills and financial decision-making and improve your communication skills for explaining analytical results.
Data Visualisation
Elective: Data Visualisation
In the Data Visualization elective, participants will be confronted with large amounts of data and the challenge of dealing with it. Understand, apply and practise the main approaches to data-driven decision making and tools for data visualization.
Participants are encouraged to take part in the yearly dataviz challenge.
Strategic Foresight
Elective: Strategic Foresight
Imagine being able to step into the future and explore how you can repeat success, pinpoint your blind spots, and build confidence. Through a four-step process, this course will help you to become better prepared for an uncertain future. You will develop skills to scan for signals, explore a variety of plausible futures and craft winning strategies.
Agile Thinking
Elective: Agile Thinking
This elective course explores how organisations and teams can approach change, disruption and renewal through creative, bottom-up approaches to problem-solving under tight timeframes. Trying, testing and failing are all part of the agile mindset which can accelerate and enhance innovative processes.
*Please note that options may change and are subject to availability
Are you looking for a truly personaliseable MBA?
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FAQ
At EDHEC, you can tailor your MBA programme to suit your individual needs and interests. The MBA electives complement the core courses in finance, strategy, leadership etc. Intensive elective courses on a range of different topics in addition to specialisation tracks and business trips make your EDHEC Global MBA experience truly unique to give all the tools and skills you need to transform your career.
To choose your electives in an MBA, you need to look into your interests and career goals. Our experienced career advisors can help you choose the right electives based on what you want to achieve post-MBA. Contact us for more advice.
The best electives in an MBA are those that align with your interests and career goals. They either complement your core courses and specialisation tracks or allow you to get new insights into subjects you didn’t know before.
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