15 - 2 Business Analytics Electives

Updated for Spring 2025. (pdf version)

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.

15-2 Business Analytics Electives 

[Updated May 2025]  

15-2 Minor Requirement: 

Three subjects from the approved list of restricted electives. A minimum of two electives must be Course 15 subjects. A full subject is either 9 or 12 units. A half subject is 6 units. 

RESTRICTED ELECTIVES 

 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)
• 15.0621 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]
• 15.076 Analytics for a Better World (Fall)
• 15.312 Organizational Processes (Fall)
• 15.276 Communicating with Data (Fall and Spring)
• 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)
• 15.6731Negotiation Analysis (IAP. half subject)
• 15.7611Introduction to Operations Management (Spring)
• 15.762JSupply Chain Analytics (Spring)
• 15.773 Hands-On Deep Learning (Spring. half subject)
• 15.777 Health Care Lab: Introduction to Healthcare Delivery in the United States   (Fall)
• 15.780 Stochastic Models (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)
• 15.8731System 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) 

 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)
• 6.3900(6.036) Introduction to Machine Learning (Fall and Spring)