The International MBA offers a host of options which allow you to personalize your MBA to maximize its benefit to you based on your interests, needs, and aspirations. The International MBA offers exchange programs, a large selection of elective options, language options, as well as entrepreneurial projects with the Venture Lab program, Dual Degree programs with Tufts and MIT, an international partnership with Wharton, and the Interstate Programme international symposium. The International MBA offers a wealth of personalization options which are summarized below. More detailed information can be found in the Your Program section.
In the fourth period of the International MBA you will be able to personalize your studies by choosing from a host of elective classes, both in English and Spanish, to compliment your core studies and to allow you to concentrate on specific areas according to your interests and needs.
With more than 60 electives to choose from, the elective courses really do offer you the opportunity to fully customize your MBA, making it a personalized program that caters to you.
You may choose to go on the exchange program and take classes at one of our top international partner institutions. Another advantage to the exchange program is the contribution that exchange students bring to IE from other top schools around the globe.
Participating Schools List*
Students participating in the exchange program begin classes at their chosen institution in the beginning of the last period and will return to IE to sit their final exams.
Exchange placements are conceded by preference and class ranking.
*the list of Partner School may vary from intake to intake depending on Agreements and program dates.
The IE Venture Lab channels your entrepreneurial energies into the development of an independent, corporate, family, or social venture.
Designed by the IE Entrepreneurship Department, Venture Lab gives you the unique opportunity to work with your colleagues and classmates in designing, developing and launching your own business plan. You can choose from among four different Venture Lab tracks (outlined below). Most are accompanied by a corresponding elective and most Venture Lab and elective work takes place in the fifth term. Most business plans are evaluated in the fall by a board of investors who meet to hear student pitches and determine those they wish to invest in. This presentation constitutes the final exam.
Venture Lab is completely open and limited only by your passion and imagination.
Independent Venturing track offers limitless project options and is aimed at students aspiring to a career as an entrepreneur, you either take your project developed during the core courses further, or develop a new idea.
Participating students join together in teams, made up of students from all Master’s program where the programs are compatible with the target dates set out in the courses.
The final exam will be the verbal presentation of your business plan judged by a board of investors. Ultimately, the winners' plans will be invested in by various business groups and individuals.
Social entrepreneurship is not a new field or discipline but a term that captures a unique approach to applying market principles to problems of unsustainable livelihoods, an approach that cuts across sectors and disciplines, this track initiates you in this exciting field and offers the chance to combine professionalism and entrepreneurship with the betterment of society.
Social entrepreneurs establish and/or lead organizations that catalyze systemic social change by providing innovative products or services that benefit excluded populations, and create hybrid organizations employing business methods while focusing on social value-creation.
You will first attend 8 theory sessions taught by an expert in social entrepreneurship, followed by another seven guest lectures with active social entrepreneurs. As part of a team, you will then develop a social entrepreneurship business plan supervised by a tutor.
The Family Venturing Track treats all of the distinct venturing strategies and practices of family-run businesses. Students enrolled in the Family Venturing track take the corresponding elective that presents both a theoretical framework for understanding the family form of business organization, and a practical perspective on consulting to family firms as well as working as a family member in a family business.
The final exam will be the presentation by the individual or group of their business plan to a tribunal of professors and business leaders.
In order to maximize the benefit of your time in Spain, IE offers Business Spanish lessons (for a nominal fee), from December until July, at various different levels, as well as an intensive course as part of the pre-program, should you wish to improve your fluency in the world's second most important business language. You may capitalize on the experience by taking advantage of an array of electives offered in Spanish during the fifth period.
IE Business School Currently offers two dual degree programs, one with Tufts University, the other with MIT.
You will have the opportunity to pursue a second degree in International Affairs at the Fletcher School at Tufts University or in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at either the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics in Cambridge, Massachusetts or at the MIT- Zaragoza Logistics Center in Zaragoza, Spain.
These programs enable you to obtain two advanced degrees from leading institutions in far less time than would be required if each were pursued separately.
The Wharton Global Consulting Practicum creates a forum in which you can apply the concepts, methods and paradigms learned in the classroom with the resources of a professional network to develop strategic and innovative marketing plans for organizations worldwide. This practicum involves the collaboration between a group of IE and Wharton students, who work together on a real consulting project and represents a great opportunity to practice what you have learnt in class.
Since 2001, IE Business School has participated and helped sponsor the UK-based Interstate Programme, an annual venture that brings together students enrolled in MBA programs in the US and Europe to analyze such issues as the current EU-US economic and political relationship, the challenges of globalization, demographics and competitiveness in the European Union among others.
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