Personalize your learning and fast-track your path to leadership
Personalize your learning and fast-track your path to leadership
Ranked #1 in the world by the Financial Times, the Global MBA is a unique program designed for ambitious professionals and executives who want to deepen their business acumen, expand their leadership capabilities, or pivot their careers, in the format, language, and location of their choice.
The Global MBA is a personalized and streamlined learning journey that will help you accelerate your momentum and shape your future. This agile program offers high-potential executives the flexibility they need to grow their skills and build their network – without putting their ambitions on hold.
As part of that commitment to personalized learning, the program offers multiple differentiated editions within one ecosystem: Whichever edition you choose, you’ll experience the same top-ranked program built on flexibility, personalized learning, and global exposure.
The Global MBA blends bespoke executive and career coaching with project-based, real-world simulations and applied assignments. With global immersion experiences in key regions such as North America, Middle East, and Asia as well as the option of a 100% online format, the Global MBA will expand your horizons, strengthen your leadership impact, and help you become the next best you.
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Inside the Global MBA
Inside the Global MBA
CHOOSE YOUR EDITION. SHAPE YOUR PATH.
CHOOSE YOUR EDITION. SHAPE YOUR PATH.
The Global MBA ecosystem offers different editions within one integrated framework. Each delivers the same top-ranked academic foundation while offering distinct formats, languages, and regional perspectives tailored to different career goals.
Global MBA
Ranked #1 in the world by the Financial Times, the Global MBA offers a personalized and flexible learning journey designed for ambitious professionals, executives, and entrepreneurs looking to accelerate their careers. Combining academic rigor with real-world impact, this 18-month program integrates executive coaching, immersive international experiences, and specialization tracks that shape your MBA to your career goals. Whether you choose a 100% online or blended format, you’ll expand your network, strengthen your leadership skills, and gain the strategic perspectives to thrive – without putting your career on hold.
- Global MBA Executive Spanish Edition
The Global MBA Executive Spanish Edition is ideal for professionals, executives, and entrepreneurs who value high-impact, face-to-face learning while building global leadership careers. Delivered in a weekend-based format in Madrid, the program’s face-to-face structure offers immersive classroom learning and powerful in-person networking opportunities, all within the Global MBA’s top-ranked structure. Built on the same principles of flexibility and personalization, this is an MBA experience designed to accelerate your career – on your terms.
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Whatever your career goals, our Program Specialist is ready to answer your questions. Schedule a personal consultation call now to see how this program fits your personal and professional ambitions.
A flexible learning journey
A flexible learning journey
A unique path
Combining flexibility with the highest academic standards, the Global MBA puts you in control of your learning experience. Over the program’s course, you’ll be able to choose your format, electives, and destinations. Our project-based, AI-resilient approach addresses the challenges of the digital age while staying true to the academic rigor and real-world relevance our learners expect.
The best format for you
Available in face-to-face (in Spanish), blended, and 100% online options, the Global MBA also offers three differentiated editions, enabling you to further shape your learning around your goals and ambitions. However you personalize your journey, the program is designed to fit around your life and career without compromising learning quality. Whether you combine your studies with immersion experiences across different continents, or follow a fully online route, flexibility remains central to the experience.
Specialize with intention
The Global MBA puts you in full control of your electives. With specialization tracks in areas including governance, AI, entrepreneurship, innovation, and advanced business acumen, as well the dedicated Executive Foresight & Leadership track, you’re in the driving seat of your learning journey. Whatever your choices, the program’s diversified, project-based methodologies promote applied learning and real-world immersion across all pathways.
Decide your destinations
If you choose to enrich your MBA with immersive residential experiences, you won’t simply visit new locations – you’ll gain direct insight into the business ecosystems shaping today’s global economy. From technology and venture capital in San Francisco to innovation and finance in Shanghai, sustainability leadership in Copenhagen, entrepreneurship in New York, emerging growth in Riyadh, and wellbeing-driven leadership in Segovia, each destination is designed to deepen your understanding of how business operates in context.
Wherever you go, you’ll return with a sharper perspective, stronger networks, and market intelligence aligned with your career ambitions.
Personalized coaching
From the start of the program, you’ll have access to personalized coaching and dedicated career mentorship designed around your individual purpose. Through one-to-one guidance and targeted workshops, the Global MBA supports you in defining, refining, and activating your professional goals. Whether you aim to pivot, accelerate, or lead at a higher level, the program adapts to your ambitions.
Your structured development journey will help you align who you are, what you value, and where you want to go – so that every step you take on the Global MBA moves you closer to a career with clarity, impact, and intention.
Real-world relevance
Through immersive, cross-functional sprints, you’ll lead interdisciplinary teams, navigate ambiguity, and deliver solutions under real-world constraints. The Business Sprint and Sustainability Challenge are designed to replicate the complexity, pace, and accountability of senior leadership environments, testing your skills with real company challenges.
Turn Markets into Classrooms
Turn Markets into Classrooms
As a Global MBA participant, you'll have the opportunity to visit global business hubs for a transformative learning experience. Our optional Global Immersion Weeks give you the chance to take your learning beyond the classroom and into the heart of some of the world’s most influential business ecosystems.
With your choice of destination from selected key markets, you’ll gain practical insights, grow your network, and build a nuanced understanding of how business is shaped by local context, culture, and opportunity. You’ll come back with a broader vision, sharper intuition, and a toolkit ready for the global stage.
Destinations may vary and depend on demand.
Where better than Copenhagen for a deep dive into sustainable business practices?
Explore the capital markets in New York, the city that never sleeps.
Experience the Chinese business miracle for yourself in Shanghai.
See how Spain is pioneering a new philosophy of wellbeing in Segovia.
Soak up the atmosphere and energy of San Francisco, the world’s undisputed tech and AI capital.
In Riyadh, witness firsthand the transformation of a society.
Your Global MBA Journey
Your Global MBA Journey
REASONS TO STUDY THE GLOBAL MBA
REASONS TO STUDY THE GLOBAL MBA
The global leader in blended and online
The global leader in blended and online
Ranked #1 worldwide by the Financial Times, IE Business School’s Global MBA combines academic rigor with cutting-edge learning methodologies.
Who is the Global MBA right for?
Who is the Global MBA right for?
YOUR FUTURE NETWORK
The Global MBA is designed for diverse professionals from around the world. Whether you want to hone your skills to step into executive management, use your expertise to pivot, or found and scale your own business, you’ll connect with likeminded leaders and changemakers of tomorrow.
OUR FACULTY ARE HERE TO GUIDE YOU
OUR FACULTY ARE HERE TO GUIDE YOU
MEET THE GLOBAL Executive MBA VICE-DEAN, LUCÍA EGEA
MEET THE GLOBAL Executive MBA VICE-DEAN, LUCÍA 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.
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STILL UNSURE WHICH MBA IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is the Global MBA?
IE’s Global MBA is a flexible, high-performance program designed for experienced professionals who want to accelerate their careers without pausing them. It combines online and hybrid learning, and can be completed 100% online, offering maximum flexibility for professionals who need to balance their studies with work and personal commitments. The program includes global immersion weeks, personalized coaching, and leadership development, offering a curated growth journey built for the realities of today’s working world.
How does the program differ from a regular MBA?
The Global MBA is designed for working professionals who want a flexible, career-friendly experience with global exposure. It blends online learning, immersive weeks in top business hubs, and personalized coaching—offering a tailored leadership journey instead of a one-size-fits-all path.
In which countries does the program take place?
The Global MBA starts and ends in Madrid, Spain. For those students who choose to participate in the in-person Global Immersion Weeks, you will select from a range of top business hubs, including New York (USA), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), San Francisco (USA), Shanghai (China), Copenhagen (Denmark), and Segovia (Spain). Destinations may vary depending on the intake.
Who should apply to the Global MBA?
Experienced professionals seeking a flexible, high-performance MBA that fits alongside their career and lifestyle. This program is ideal for those who want global exposure, personalized learning, leadership development, and a strong network—without pausing their professional growth.
Evolving from IE’s #1 Financial Times–ranked Global Online MBA, the Global MBA represents the next generation of leadership education.