Undergraduate

15 - 2 Business Analytics Electives - Major

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

Updated for Spring 2025. (pdf version)

 
RESTRICTED ELECTIVES 

Minimum of three Course 15 subjects for the major

  • 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 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]
  • 15.285 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 Healthcare Delivery 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)
  • 15.8731System 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)

For 15-2 majors:
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 (Fall)
  • 15.501 Corporate Financial Accounting (Fall and Spring)
  • 15.9001 Competitive Strategy (Spring)

Maximum of two non-Course 15 subjects for the major 

  • 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)