University of Southern California

Curriculum

Graduate Program

Coordinator: Steven Mednick

We offer MBA candidates an Entrepreneurship concentration that requires a minimum of four courses for completion. Concentrators are required to take Introduction to New Ventures, Feasibility Analysis, and The Business Plan. Elective options include CEO/Founder Cases in New Venture Management, Management of Rapidly Growing Ventures, Investing in New Ventures, Technology Feasibility in High Tech Ventures, and Technology Commercialization.

Undergraduate Program

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We offer courses for undergraduate students who choose to major in entrepreneurship and those who prefer to get more limited exposure to entrepreneurship on an individual course basis. All Entrepreneurship majors complete a sequence of four courses: Management of New Enterprises; Cases in Entrepreneurship (Feasibility Analysis); Business Plan; and Starting and Growing the New Venture.

Certificate in Technology Commercialization

Coordinator: Dr. Kathleen Allen

For graduate students in science, engineering, and business, this program provides opportunities to learn commercialization skills in an academic/real world environment that combines theory and practice.