15 - 2 Business Analytics Electives - Minor

Updated for Fall 2026 - Spring 2027

15-2 Minor Requirement: Three full subjects* from the approved list of Restricted Electives . At least two of the full subjects must be from Course 15 (*Full Subject = 9 or 12 unit class. Two 6-unit classes (half course) are counted as one full subject).

COURSE 15 RESTRICTED ELECTIVES (2-3 Full Subjects)

Minimum of two full Course 15 subjects:

• 15.0161J/14.45J Climate and Energy in the Global Economy (Fall)
• 15.0251 Game Theory for Strategic Advantage (Spring)
• 15.0341 Business Experiments and Causal Analytics (Spring)
• 15.037J/14.44J Energy Economics and Policy (Spring)
• 15.0711 The AI Edge (New Course Title. 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]
• 15.1411 Economics and Analytics of Health Care Industries (Spring)
• 15.276 Communicating with Data (Fall and Spring)
• 15.285 Sports Strategy and Analytics (Spring. half subject)
• 15.301 People, Teams, and Organizations Laboratory (Fall)
• 15.450 Analytics of Finance (Fall)
• 15.456 Financial Engineering (Fall)
• 15.458 Financial Data Science and Computing (Spring)
• 15.561 Digital Revolution: From Foundations to Future Trends (Fall)
• 15.563/6.4150 Artificial Intelligence for Business (Fall)
• 15.566 Generative AI Lab (Spring)
• 15.567 The Economics of Information: Strategy, Structure and Pricing (Spring. half subject)
• 15.572 Analytics Lab (Fall) [cannot double count if used as substitute for 15.076]
• 15.573 Generative AI for Managers (Spring) [formerly 15.S68]
• 15.669 Strategies for People Analytics (Spring. half subject)
• 15.6731 Negotiation Analysis (IAP. half subject) [please note that the 3-unit version 15.6721 will not count as a half elective]
• 15.7611 Introduction to Operations Management (Spring)
• 15.777 Health Care Lab (Fall)
• 15.780 Analytics of Operations Management (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)
• 15.830 Enterprise Management Lab (Fall)
• 15.871 Introduction to System Dynamics (Fall and Spring. half subject)
• 15.8731 System Dynamics: Tools for Solving Complex Problems (Fall and Spring)
• 15.874J/12.387J People and the Planet: Environmental Governance and Science (Fall)
• 15.C571/6.C571 Optimization Methods (Fall) [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 (Fall)
• 15.S09 Data, Markets, and the Future of Privacy (Spring. half subject)

NON-COURSE 15 RESTRICTED ELECTIVES (0-1 Full Subjects)

Maximum of one non-Course 15 subject:

• 1.041J Transportation: Foundations and Methods (Spring)
• 6.1200 Mathematics for Computer Science (Fall and Spring)
• 6.3260J/14.15J Networks (Fall)
• 6.3900 Introduction to Machine Learning (Fall and 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 (Spring)
• 18.C06 Linear Algebra and Optimization (Fall)
• 18.615 Introduction to Stochastic Processes (Fall)
• IDS.012J/6.3730 Statistics, Computation and Applications (Spring)