Global Offsite Electives

Global Offsite Electives are optional courses offered by Rice Business abroad available to our second year MBA students. These global electives allow you to gain valuable exposure to different cultures, make business contacts, hear from dynamic speakers and network with local alumni.

Join Rice Business on a Global Offsite Elective in 2024. Review the course locations, details, and associated costs below. If interested, plan your fall course load and travel plans now.

Entrepreneurship & Sustainability in Portugal

Dates: October 14 - 21, 2024
Credits: 1.5 Elective Credits, Graded S/U, Fall Course
Faculty: Balaji Koka

Cost: $2,928 (airfare not included)
Registration Deadline: July 22, 2024
Early Bird: Register by June 24 for $100 off!
Guest Cost: $1,995

In today's rapidly evolving world, the importance of entrepreneurship and sustainability cannot be overstated. Portugal offers a particularly interesting setting to examine these two topics as it seeks to navigate the challenges and opportunities of EU membership.

Travel with Balaji Koka to two cities - Lisbon and Porto - which offer complementary perspectives. Lisbon, the political and commercial capital of Portugal, and Porto, the perspective of traditional manufacturing industries.

Review the Course Brochure and register today!

Innovation, Technology & Energy in Dubai

Dates: December 13 - 20, 2024
Credits: 1.5 Elective Credits, Graded S/U, Fall Course
Faculty: Jim Krane

Cost: $3,000 (airfare not included)
Registration Deadline: August 22, 2024
Early Bird: Register by July 22 for $100 off!
Guest Cost: $1,600

Jim Krane describes Dubai as the “World’s Fastest City,” home to its tallest building and a population more dominated by immigrants than any other—anywhere. It’s a city that once ran out of beachfront property, until it built a whole lot more in the form of artificial islands.

In this Global Offsite Elective, immerse yourself in Dubai's strive for higher knowledge-added sectors, cleaner energy and reduced emissions, and lower labor intensity.

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Review Global Offsite Electives Frequently Asked Questions

Humbling, eye-opening, life-changing. The opportunity to travel to a part of the world I wouldn't have normally had extremely high on my bucket list was a real draw for me. I saw it as a chance to step outside of my comfort zone and travel to an unknown place with unknown people and it was so rewarding. You can't help but come back changed and see things from a new perspective

Bojan Babic, Professional MBA - Class of 2020

Global Elective: Uganda