15 - 2 Business Analytics Electives

Updated for Spring 2025. (pdf version)

15-2 Major Requirement: Five subjects from the approved list of restricted electives. A minimum of three electives must be Course 15subjects. A full subject is either 9 or 12 units. A half subject is 6 units.

15-2 Minor Requirement: Three subjects from the approved list of restricted electives. A minimum of two electives must be Course15 subjects. A full subject is either 9 or 12 units. A half subject is 6 units.

Minimum of three Course 15 subjects for the major/minimum of two Course 15 subjects for the minor:   
15.0161J/14.45J Climate and Energy in the Global Economy (Spring)   
15.0251 Game Theory for Strategic Advantage (Spring)   
15.0341 Econometrics for Managers:Correlation & Causality in a Big Data World (Spring)   
15.0351 Energy Market Dynamics in a Decarbonizing Economy (Spring. half subject) [students cannot receive credit if they have already taken 15.037J/14.44J]   
15.037J/14.44J Energy Economics and Policy (Spring)   
15.0621J Data Mining: Finding the Models and Predictions that Create Value (Spring. half subject)   
15.068 Statistical Consulting (Spring)   
15.0711 The Analytics Edge (Fall and Spring) [cannot double count if used to fulfill Machine Learning requirement]   
15.075 Statistical Thinking and Data Analysis [cannot double count if used in partial fulfillment of Probability/Statistics requirement]   
15.285 Sports Strategy and Analytics (Spring, half subject)   
15.450 Analytics of Finance (Spring)   
15.456 Financial Engineering (Fall)   
15.458 Financial Data Science and Computing (Fall)   
15.561 Digital Revolution: From Foundations to Future Trends (Spring)   
15.563/6.4150 Artificial Intelligence for Business (Spring)   
15.567 The Economics of Information: Strategy, Structure and Pricing (Spring. half subject)   
15.570 Digital Marketing and Social Media Analytics (Fall. half subject)   
15.669 Strategies for People Analytics (Fall. half subject)   
15.6731 Negotiation Analysis (IAP. half subject)   
15.7611 Introduction to Operations Management(Spring)   
15.762J Supply Chain Analytics (Spring)   
15.773 Hands-On Deep Learning (Spring. half subject)   
15.777 Health Care Lab: Introduction to Health Care Deliver in the United States (Fall)   
15.785 Product Management (Spring. half subject)   
15.8141 Marketing Innovation (Spring)   
15.818 Pricing (Fall. half subject)   
15.819 Marketing and Product Analytics (Spring)   
15.871 System Dynamics I (Fall and Spring, half subject)   
15.8731 System Dynamics for Business and Policy (Fall and Spring)   
15.874J/12.387J People and the Planet: Environmental Governance and Science (Fall)   
15.C08J/17.C08J Causal Inference (Spring)   
15.C571/6.C571 Optimization Methods (Fall. Formerly 15.093J/6.7201) [cannot double count if used as a substitution for 15.053 to fulfill Optimization requirement]   
15.S08 Advanced Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Finance (Spring)   
15.S68 Generative AI for Managers (Spring. half subject)

For 15-2 majors only: (minors cannot use for their requirement). One of the five restricted electives can be one of the management breadth option subjects below:
15.401 Managerial Finance (Fall and Spring)
15.417 Laboratory in Investments (Spring)
15.501 Corporate Financial Accounting (Fall and Spring)
15.9001 Competitive Strategy (Spring)

Maximum of two non-Course 15 subjects for the major/maximum of one non-Course 15 subject for the minor:  
1.022 Introduction to Network Models (Fall)  
1.041J Transportation: Foundations and Methods (Spring) 
6.1200(6.042) Mathematics for Computer Science (Fall and Spring) 
6.3260J/14.15J Networks (Spring) 
6.3950 AI, Decision Making, and Society (Fall) 
9.66J/6.4120J Computational Cognitive Science (Fall) 
14.12 Economic Applications of Game Theory (Fall) 
14.32 Econometrics (Fall and Spring) [cannot double count if used in partial fulfillment of Probability Statistics requirement] 
18.06 Linear Algebra (Fall and Spring) 
18.C06 Linear Algebra and Optimization (Fall) 
18.615 Introduction to Stochastic Processes (Spring) 
IDS.012J/6.3730 Statistics, Computation and Applications (Spring)

Additional subjects that count for the minor (15-2major requirements): 
15.076 Analytics for a Better World (Spring) 
15.276 Communicating with Data (Fall and Spring) 
15.312 Organizational Processes (Fall) 
15.780 Stochastic Models (Fall) 
6.3900(6.036) Introduction to Machine Learning (Fall and Spring)