Tailor your programme with your choice of MBA electives

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*.

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.

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.

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.

Criminal Risk Management

Elective: Criminal Risk Management

This course focuses on various criminal risks faced by multinational companies, including cybercrime, fraud, and corruption, highlighting their significant impact on business operations and strategy. It aims to provide an in-depth analysis of these risks, identify the different predators involved, and explore their methods. Additionally, the course will equip you with a framework for detecting criminal risks in business ecosystems and present effective risk-mitigation strategies that companies can implement.

Digital Marketing

Elective: Digital Marketing

In this dynamic elective on digital marketing strategies, you'll learn to seamlessly integrate digital and physical channels at a strategic level akin to top marketing executives. This course empowers you to define clear business goals, identify target audiences, and craft compelling messaging, preparing you to effectively execute and assess the impact of integrated campaigns.

Strategic Foresight

Elective: Strategic Foresight

Explore the evolving landscape of strategic management in our innovative course, where you'll learn to prioritise creativity and agility over traditional long-term planning. Through scenario-based planning, you'll gain valuable insights into navigating uncertainty and preparing your organisation for future success. Equip yourself with the skills to identify trends, overcome decision-making biases, and drive strategic foresight in complex environments.

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: 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: 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: Criminal Risk Management

This course focuses on various criminal risks faced by multinational companies, including cybercrime, fraud, and corruption, highlighting their significant impact on business operations and strategy. It aims to provide an in-depth analysis of these risks, identify the different predators involved, and explore their methods. Additionally, the course will equip you with a framework for detecting criminal risks in business ecosystems and present effective risk-mitigation strategies that companies can implement.

Elective: Digital Marketing

In this dynamic elective on digital marketing strategies, you'll learn to seamlessly integrate digital and physical channels at a strategic level akin to top marketing executives. This course empowers you to define clear business goals, identify target audiences, and craft compelling messaging, preparing you to effectively execute and assess the impact of integrated campaigns.

Elective: Strategic Foresight

Explore the evolving landscape of strategic management in our innovative course, where you'll learn to prioritise creativity and agility over traditional long-term planning. Through scenario-based planning, you'll gain valuable insights into navigating uncertainty and preparing your organisation for future success. Equip yourself with the skills to identify trends, overcome decision-making biases, and drive strategic foresight in complex environments.

Are you looking for a truly personaliseable MBA?

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FAQ

What are MBA electives?

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.

How to choose electives in an MBA?

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.

Which electives are best in an MBA?

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.