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Contemplating business school, but wary of the hefty price tag?

Online courses could be the solution. While taking classes on your own wouldn't give you the career advancement or networking opportunities that come with traditional enrollment, classes on Coursera and other platforms can closely approximate the core curriculum of a top-notch MBA program.

Wharton requires:  Managing the Productive Core of the Firm:  Quality and Productivity

Wharton requires:  Microeconomic Foundations

Wharton requires:  Advanced Topics in Managerial Economics

Online equivalent:  Financial Analysis and Decision Making (TsinghuaX/edX, lectures in Chinese with English subtitles)

Wharton requires:  Regression Analysis for Business

Online equivalent:  Core Concepts in Data Analysis  (Higher School of Economics/Coursera)

In addition to its fixed core requirements, Wharton offers "flexible core courses."  The goal of these is to expand study in the core areas listed above (leadership, marketing, operations, microeconomics, economics, and statistics) while giving students more freedom to choose classes that suit their interests and goals. Wharton students are required to take one course in each of the required areas.