Global MBA
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Ranked #1 in the world by the Financial Times, the Global MBA is a personalized learning experience designed for ambitious professionals and executives who want to build their careers on the global stage. IE Business School’s Global MBA program offers a flexible, streamlined, and personalized journey that combines academic rigor with real-world impact, helping you to accelerate your career on your terms.
Shaped around your goals and professional path, the Global MBA blends bespoke executive and career coaching with project-based learning, real-world simulations, and immersive global experiences. You can tailor your journey through a wide range of specialization tracks, select the format that best suits your needs through blended or 100% online delivery, and expand your international perspective through residential periods and immersion destinations in leading business hubs.
With destinations including New York, Shanghai, San Francisco, and more the Global MBA helps you build a diverse international network and grow your global profile, equipping you with the skills, confidence, and strategic vision to lead in a complex and fast-changing world. Built around flexibility, personalization, and expert teaching, the Global MBA puts you in charge of your career – and your future.
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The Global MBA Experience
The Global MBA Experience
Your MBA, your terms
Flexible learning formats
Choose between a blended format with residential periods or a 100% online experience, designed to adapt seamlessly to your schedule and location. Study from anywhere in the world while remaining fully connected to a diverse, global cohort.
Wherever you join the Global MBA ecosystem
You’ll share the same top-ranked learning journey with the flexibility to tailor your format, destinations, and track.
Global immersion experiences
Thematic experiences in New York, Riyadh, Copenhagen, San Francisco, Shanghai, or Segovia, where you’ll immerse yourself in global business, connect theory to real-world context on the ground, and expand your international network and outlook.
Personalized coaching
From day one, you’ll work with an executive coach to clarify your goals and shape a focused development plan aligned with your ambitions. As you progress, specialized career coaching will help you define your next move with confidence, ensuring continuous growth and strategic direction throughout the program.
Business Sprints
A series of intensive courses designed to help participants apply theoretical knowledge and industry best practices to real-world business challenges.
Specialization tracks
Tailor your journey by choosing from a variety of specializations , or build a cross-functional profile across key areas such as advanced business acumen, executive leadership and foresight, entrepreneurship and innovation, technology and AI, and family in business.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
- Description
- Term 1
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- Term 3
- MAKE THE MOST OUT OF YOUR GLOBAL MBA
- 1st term
- 2nd term
- 3rd term
- Description
- Term 1
- Term 2
- Term 3
- MAKE THE MOST OUT OF YOUR GLOBAL MBA
MEET THE GLOBAL MBA VICE DEAN LUCIA EGEA
MEET THE GLOBAL MBA VICE DEAN LUCIA EGEA
As the Vice Dean of Executive MBA programs, Lucia is dedicated to guiding leaders in discovering their purpose and creating sustainable, long-lasting business models.
With over 20 years of international corporate experience and a passion for finance, she excels in solving complex problems through a blend of analytical thinking and creativity, fostering positive disruption in the process.
In her role as an adjunct professor, Lucia enjoys teaching financial reporting and analysis, as well as entrepreneurship, across various programs within IE University. Her boundless curiosity and energy drive her to be a lifelong learner, with interests spanning futures design, human-centered approaches and digitalization.
Lucia holds double cum laude degrees in business studies from Spain and the UK. She also has an Executive MBA from IE Business School, for which she was named the top student in her cohort.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
WHAT IS IE’S GLOBAL MBA?
IE’s Global MBA is an 18-month, part-time program designed for experienced professionals who want to accelerate their careers without pausing them. Ranked #1 by the Financial Times, it combines flexibility, global exposure and personalized leadership development in a blended or 100% online format.
HOW DOES THE GLOBAL MBA DIFFER FROM A TRADITIONAL MBA?
The Global MBA is built for working professionals seeking flexibility and personalization. It blends online learning with optional residential periods and global immersion weeks, offering a tailored leadership journey rather than a one-size-fits-all model.
WHAT IS THE DURATION, FORMAT AND LANGUAGE OF THE PROGRAM?
The program lasts 18 months and is delivered in English. It is offered in a blended format—combining online study with residential periods and immersion weeks—or as a fully 100% online experience.
WHEN CAN I START THE GLOBAL MBA?
The Global MBA offers two annual intakes: March and September.
WHERE DOES THE PROGRAM TAKE PLACE?
The program can be completed 100% online or in a blended format that includes residential periods in Madrid and Global Immersion Weeks in leading business hubs such as New York, Shanghai, Riyadh, Copenhagen and San Francisco. Destinations may vary by intake.
WHAT MAKES THE GLOBAL MBA LEARNING EXPERIENCE UNIQUE?
The program combines academic rigor with practical application through Business Sprints, a Sustainability Challenge, AI-resilient simulations and real-world projects. Participants also personalize their journey through elective tracks and executive coaching.
WHO IS THE GLOBAL MBA DESIGNED FOR?
The program is designed for experienced, ambitious professionals seeking career acceleration, global exposure and leadership development—while continuing to work full-time.
IS THE GLOBAL MBA ONLY AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH?
The Global MBA is delivered in English. However, IE Business School also offers a Spanish-language edition of the Global MBA in a weekend, face-to-face format in Madrid. Both formats lead to the same Global MBA degree and share the same academic standards.