The Executive MS in Entrepreneurship comprises 11 modules, each of which runs approximately one month. BRAIN’s and Zicklin’s renowned business faculty and experts teach two weekends per month in the classroom. All additional coursework takes place before and after the classroom sessions, supported by an online platform that allows faculty-supervised individual and group work.
- Program Credits: 31.5
- Program Length: 11 Months
- Classes meet 2 weekends per month (Saturday & Sunday)
- Focus on one course per-month
- Learn from your cohort of experienced professionals as well as from an international faculty
Introduction
The curriculum reflects the current state and outlook of the global entrepreneurship. Program prerequisites include courses in accounting and marketing management.
Required courses
The required courses cover fundamental entrepreneurial concepts and communication. These two courses must be taken before any other modules. Together, they carry 4.5 credits.
- Business Communication
- Entrepreneurial Strategy and Cases
Foundations
Entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial models and applications are the focus of foundational courses in the next four modules. Together, they carry 12.0 credits.
- Analysis of Entrepreneurial Experiences
- Entrepreneurship and Community Development
- Researching and Developing Entrepreneurial Enterprises
- Boards, Governance and Leadership Within Entrepreneurial and Family Firms
New Frontiers and Challenges
These courses introduce students to advanced and new areas of entrepreneurship. Courses employ experiential learning strategies to analyze and apply concepts. To offer students the experience of new learning styles, one of these courses will be completely online. Together, they carry 15.0 credits.
- Managing the Entrepreneurial Enterprise
- Technology, Innovation and Design in High Growth Ventures
- Social Entrepreneurship: Concepts and Cases
- Seminar in Entrepreneurship (Finance)
- Entrepreneurial Communications: Selling and Negotiating
PLEASE NOTE: The program reserves the right to amend, modify, and change the curriculum, specific courses offered and/or the sequence of modules.
Modular Format
The EMSE program is delivered in a modular format with a combination of traditional face-to-face classes and several different forms of distance learning. Examples of types of distance learning are case or problem assignments that students prepare and submit electronically, and participation in discussion boards.
Each course is taught within the period of about one month. There are four days of classes, all of which are given on Saturdays and Sundays on two successive weekends. The classes are complemented with distance learning before the first Saturday class, between the two weekends, and after the second Sunday class.
The modular format was designed to best meet the needs of busy executives who work full time and want to pursue graduate studies while they continue their careers.
Time to Degree Completion
The program is designed to be completed in about one year, during which students take all 10 course modules. Students must complete the program within 6 years.
Students who choose to take longer than one year will incur additional costs, as described in detail in the Tuition and Fees section.