Students focus their interests and develop the skills and knowledge they will draw on throughout their careers by choosing elective courses from both the School of Management and the broader University. Yale SOM elective courses are both discipline-based, for specialized study of a particular area, and integrated, building on the connections made in the core curriculum.

Students take four units of electives in the second semester of the first year and all electives in the second year.

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Sample Yale SOM Electives

Accounting
Financial Statement Analysis
Financial Statements of Nonprofit Organizations

Economics
Macroeconomic Analysis
Behavioral and Institutional Economics

Entrepreneurship and Private Equity
Entrepreneurial Business Planning
Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship

Finance
Corporate Finance
Capital Markets

General Management
Business Ethics Meets Behavioral Economics
Creativity and Innovation

International
Doing Business in the Developing World
Leading a Global Company

Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Strategic Leadership across Sectors
Judgment and Negotiation

Marketing
Strategic Market Measurement
Social Media Management

Nonprofit Management
Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organizations
Endowment Management

Operations
Operations Management
Healthcare Operations

Public Management
Public Sector Economics
Policy Modeling

Strategy
Competitive Strategy
Energy Markets Strategy