M.B.A. in Entrepreneurship

Here's what one of our recent MBA in Entrepreneurship graduates has to say about our program:

I have used my education to start three businesses since I graduated. The entrepreneurship program gave me the confidence and courage to trust everything I was taught and apply it to achieve my goals in business. If you want someone else to decide what you are worth, then go work for someone. If you want to decide how much you are worth then enroll in the entrepreneurship program at CSUSB and start your own business!

Martena Wilson, MBA in Entrepreneurship, 2005

MBA in Entrepreneruship: Program Features

In the MBA in Entrepreneurship program, our approach is to help facilitate your personal learning by immersing you in the entrepreneurial process. As part of the entrepreneurial program, you will be required to start and run a business and face the risk and rewards of entrepreneurship in real time as opposed to just through case studies or class lectures. You will interact with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and business leaders within the community to learn from their successes and failures. Our faculty rarely lecture; they engage you in hands-on learning exercises and expect you to apply your skills in interactive sessions. Outside the classroom, you will work on specific tasks that hone your budding skills, such as developing business plans, assessing the commercial potential of emerging technologies from Cal State’s technology transfer office and providing consulting services to local entrepreneurs. During the process, you will discover your personal strengths, weaknesses, motivations and goals. Most importantly, as a future business owner or manager you will discover your entrepreneurial potential, not by simply learning theories, but by experiencing the entrepreneurial process first-hand.

Overall, you have the option to take a wide variety of experiences and courses in Entrepreneurship to help build your "toolkit" of entrepreneurial skills. The courses offered lead to an MBA in Entrepreneurship include:

Required Course Options:

MGMT 621 - Entrepreneurship and New Ventures(offered Fall quarter)
MGMT 623 - Piloting the Entrepreneurial Venture (offered Winter quarter)
MGMT 625 - Entrepreneurial Planning & Strategy (offered Spring quarter)

Elective Courses:

MGMT 545 - New Venture Resource Requirements (offered Winter quarter)
MGMT 547 - Managing a Growing Business (offered Spring quarter)
MGMT 620 - Business Law for Entrepreneurs (TBA)
MKTG 624 - Marketing for Entrepreneurs (TBA)
FIN 622 - Entrepreneurial Finance (offered Winter quarter)
INFO 623 - Entrepreneurial Information Management (TBA)