Corporate recruiters often cite a lack of entrepreneurial skills as a deficiency in today’s MBA students. An Emphasis in entrepreneurship is one way to shore up these skills, regardless of Concentration or Career Path.
Students who go through this program are prized for their can-do attitudes, perseverance, innovative thinking, creativity, analytic skills, and ability to get the job done with superior results. A mixture of rigorous courses taught by faculty with academic and entrepreneurial experience along with mandatory hands-on entrepreneurship project experience guarantees superior results.
Our entrepreneurship program is the epicenter of leading-edge, cross-disciplinary work among Vanderbilt’s prestigious graduate schools. Projects involve students and faculty from Vanderbilt’s law school, physicians from the Vanderbilt Medical Center, and graduate students from Vanderbilt’s engineering and science schools.
ElectivesEight hours of coursework from the following list:
Other recommended courses which do not count as part of the 8 hours toward the emphasis:
* Students may petition to have a Project course count as credit toward the Entrepreneurship emphasis. The Project course must have a Small Business/Entrepreneurship component in order to be considered for credit toward the emphasis.
Other Owen and Vanderbilt courses will be considered for credit toward the Entrepreneurship emphasis on a case-by-case basis.
