Is it impossible for you to spend two years at a foreign university or to pay high tuition for an MBA? Then you might be interested in ways to study MBA for free, under the guidance of experts from leading U.S. business schools. Although you will not earn an official degree, you will learn the same content as graduates who paid for their MBA studies. You will just need a connection to the Internet and to set aside a few hours a week. A growing number of world-renowned business schools make their courses available free of charge via online platforms such as Coursera, edX, Udacity, MIT OpenCourseWare or iTunesU.
The Business Insider website prepared a list of online courses corresponding to the official MBA curriculum at the Wharton Business School. We are publishing just a brief summary, the entire list is available here. Dates of the courses are set continuously throughout the year. If you do not want to miss any of them, you can register on the relevant servers to receive e-mail notifications.
Compulsory subjects for MBA studies at the Wharton Business School include Foundations of Teamwork and Leadership, Marketing Management, Managing the Productive Core of the Firm: Quality and Productivity, Microeconomic Foundations and Advanced Topics in Managerial Economics. The free, available alternatives to these courses can be found here:
Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence (Case Western Reserve University/Coursera)
An Introduction to Marketing (Wharton/Coursera)
An Introduction to Operations Management (Wharton/Coursera)
Introduction to Microeconomics (MIT/MIT OpenCourseWare)
Core Concepts in Data Analysis (Higher School of Economics/Coursera)
Electives include e.g. economic analyses, strategic inspiration from leading philosophers or public speaking.
What online educational resources do you use?
Tips for online education in a Czech environment can be found in the recent article by our colleague Tomas Dvorak here. Czech managers and HR professionals should also try selflearning.cz.
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