International MBA

The International MBA is for business professionals who understand that the most meaningful challenges are the ones we set for ourselves.

Defining the right career path is just such a challenge – but the wealth of options, the pace of change, and a shifting business landscape can make it seem like an intractable one. And even settling on a path can lead to more questions: are you sure it’s the right one for you? How can you progress and futureproof it? Will it fulfill you beyond just a paycheck?

The answer lies in transforming your career by transforming yourself. A curated learning experience like no other, the International MBA is a full-time program tailored to your needs. The first MBA with a holistic focus on you, the program is designed around a unique framework that emphasizes the strengths, needs, and aims of each individual.

At IE Business School, we understand that the skills and experiences you’ve accrued have brought you this far; we’ll work with you to identify and refine those skills and align them with your goals and aspirations. We’ll help you clarify and hone your sense of purpose, to bring enrichment to your career path. And we’ll collaborate to define any gaps in your expertise, and advise the best ways to address them.

• 6th Global MBA in Europe - Financial Times
• 7th Global MBA in the world - 3rd in Europe - QS
• 8th Top MBA programs for entrepreneurship in the world - Poets & Quants
• 10th European Business School in Europe - Financial Times
• 11th Best B-School in Europe - Bloomberg Businessweek

Who is the international MBA right for?

• Open-minded adventurers seeking a unique MBA program that brings opportunities for personal and professional transformation, inside the classroom and out.
• Disrupters and founders who want to explore new paths and develop the tools, connections, and mindset necessary to launch a business.
• Changemakers looking to enhance their existing career path by better aligning it to their sense of purpose, or those considering a new direction in order to create a legacy of social, economic, or professional impact.
• Forward-thinkers aiming to upskill or reskill in order to future-proof their career.
• Future leaders seeking the knowledge and skills to reach the pinnacle of their company or profession, maximizing their career potential.
• Connection builders seeking to engage with peers, industry experts, and international companies.

Choose the duration that's right for you

The International MBA offers an unparalleled opportunity to design a personalized academic journey that aligns with your unique career goals, experience, and time horizon. Whether it’s accelerating your career, taking the time to explore new possibilities, or multiplying your opportunities by obtaining a dual degree, you’ll be able to choose the duration that best fits your path.

11 months

Advance your career growth and gain the necessary skills and knowledge quickly to move ahead in your field of expertise and get on track to landing the best job for you.

15 months

Provides ample time for career exploration and more in-depth specialization. It’s beneficial to pivot career paths, explore new career options, or develop skills and gain the experience needed to enter today’s competitive job market or start up your company with confidence.

19 months - dual degree

Obtain a Dual Degree in less than two years to sharpen your leadership skills and business acumen in the International MBA and gain deep expertise in a specific field with a specialized Masters's Degree.

Breaking down your options

Customize your MBA further by choosing a language

The International MBA gives you the choice of studying entirely in English or in a hybrid of English and Spanish. Choose the experience best suited to your personal and professional goals.

How it works

Choose what’s right for you. If you choose the English option, you’ll complete the entire program in English only. If you go with the bilingual option, you can study the initial core period in Spanish and the rest of the program in English.

Language support

Improve your cross-cultural communication skills. We offer English and Spanish language classes throughout the program to support your courses and improve your language skills. We also offer a free six-month subscription to the leading language learning platform Bussu.

English

Prime yourself for the world of work.

Seize the opportunity to study entirely in the global language of business, which can enhance your understanding of international business practices, increase access to international resources and facilitate communication in the global marketplace.

Bilingual in English and Spanish

Unlock more markets and opportunities.

Studying in English and Spanish — two of the three top business languages in the world — opens the door to more markets. Many top multinational companies like Google, BBVA, or Mercedes-Benz prefer or even require, their professionals to be bilingual.

An MBA for a career path as unique as you

The business world is evolving faster than ever, creating opportunities and challenges in equal measure. But how can you decide which moves are right for your career? Which skills you’ll need for your next role? With so much advice out there, how can you know which applies to you?

The answer is to work with experts in the world of business who will get to know you from the ground up. At IE Business School, we have the connections and expertise to be your trusted guide.

The International MBA is a degree curated for you and your career. That starts with helping you discover who you are and where your aspirations lie, giving us the insight to create an academic experience tailored to your needs. We maintain an ongoing and far-reaching dialogue with the business community and continuously analyze job data, giving us the expertise to organize the business world into carefully defined Career Pathways for you to explore.

We’ll help you choose a unique path that aligns with your goals, strengths, and experience – and then we’ll curate your academic journey to equip you with the exact skills and knowledge you’ll need to succeed in the next stage of your career. We’ll keep working with you as you progress on your journey to ensure your program evolves alongside your needs and ambitions. Our mission is to help you find the best path for you – and deliver the MBA to take you there.

A career discovery process…

The Career Discovery Program helps you find the career pathway that’s best for you, and it’s an integral part of the MBA journey at IE. You’ll attend a series of discovery workshops where you’ll learn about the career areas and jobs within each pathway, the required skills, lifestyle and salary implications, and how well these jobs map to your aspirations, strengths, ways of working, prior experience, and training.

If you’re starting from a blank slate, you can attend hands-on self-exploration workshops to enhance your understanding of your strengths and gaps and clarify your career aspirations.

…as unique as you

As you continue your career discovery journey, you’ll have access to group advising sessions and a rich array of curated career discovery tools and content. You’ll hear insider perspectives from industry leaders and IE alumni, offering further insight into the careers that appeal to you.

Because we want you to find deeper meaning in your professional life, we’ll also offer workshops designed to help you define, refine and align your purpose with your career goals.

With Career Discovery, our mission is to help you determine where you’re headed next in your career so you can make good choices about your MBA concentration, employability booster modules, elective courses, and other program options available to you.

Find the pathway that’s right for you

• Branding, Marketing & Sales
• Strategy, Organization & Transformation
• Finance, Investments & Accounting
• Digital Business, Analytics & Operations
• Entrepreneurship & Corporate Innovation
• Product Management & Service Design
• Sustainability Management & Strategy
• International Business & Economics

An MBA to help you make your mark

The impact is about learning how to make big things happen in the real world – in the workplace and beyond. People with amazing strengths and know-how can still find themselves unable to create the impact they desire. That’s because it goes beyond just knowledge and experience. Impact comes down to who you are, how you think, and how you behave when confronted by the toughest challenges in the business world: facing difficult situations, difficult problems, and, sometimes, difficult people.

The International MBA is designed to equip you with the skills you’ll need to make that impact. Business is about finding solutions, and the hardest problems are the ones people will tell you can’t be solved. We’ll help you learn the critical reasoning, problem-solving, and creative thinking skills needed to tackle those challenges. We’ll show you how to influence and persuade others to get things done. We’ll teach you to negotiate, debate, and collaborate to enable you to overcome the hurdles you’ll face. And we’ll arm you with the digital skills that underpin it all so that data becomes your ally.

Nothing creates urgency and friction like a diverse team facing a big problem on a short deadline, the kind of scenario found in the business world every day. We’ll recreate exactly those situations, in the safety of a lab where you can experiment with new behaviors, new mindsets, and new ways of working, putting into practice everything you’ve learned to help you become a high-impact business professional.

Sharpen your Skills, Heighten your Impact

Thinking Skills

At its heart, business is all about problem-solving. But sometimes the biggest problems aren’t that obvious, which is why our program hones creative thinking, why we challenge you to view situations from various angles and formulate the right questions. Other times, problems can seem intractable, or even impossible to solve. That’s where our focus on sharpening critical, analytical, and logical thinking comes in. But the best ideas alone won’t be enough to revolutionize a business. That’s why we design situations where you’ll learn to think on your feet to manage teams and projects and where you’ll learn to empathize and persuade. How you think becomes a habit, and our program is expertly crafted to encourage your mental strengths and minimize the thoughts that can get in the way of your journey to success.

Behavioral Skills

Your impact on the world will depend on moment-to-moment actions. Each one adds up to define the success of your tasks, projects, and your career. Like building your muscles in a gym, your behavior can be trained to make you more productive, positive, and impactful. It’s not only an intellectual exercise. That’s why we infuse behavioral awareness and fitness skills into our curriculum and put you in situations that catalyze your growth. We architect experiences that test your behavior, that challenge you to experiment with new ways of working, selling your ideas, navigating conflicts, and performing. Behavior can be contagious. As a leader of tomorrow, learning how to set an example and bring out the best in others will further heighten your impact.

Digital Skills

Talk to any hiring manager today, and you’ll hear that business roles with impact require digital fluency. While not everyone needs to know how to code, you will need more than a basic grasp of technology. Understanding data is central to gaining an edge. In this program, you’ll learn how to properly collect, analyze and visualize data to make your case and sell your ideas. You’ll learn how to transform mounds of data into actionable insights to help you make better decisions and understand your business more deeply. No matter the pathway you choose, we’ll give you the tools to harness the power of technology and become a digitally savvy business professional.

The languages of instruction for this program are English or Bilingual (English & Spanish)