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MS Entrepreneurship + Innovation (MSEI)

MS Entrepreneurship and Innovation

  • Experiential + Applied Learning

    Launch Your Startup Or Lead Innovation

    The Master of Science in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MSEI) is a hands-on graduate program that turns bold ideas into real ventures. Whether building a startup, innovating within a company, or leading social impact, MSEI gives you the mindset, skills, and network to succeed—all in the heart of Los Angeles, a global innovation hub.

Turn Ideas Into Impact

  • Options To Suit You

    Choose the full-time, 1-year route or, if you're balancing work or life, a flexible 2-year part-time path (U.S. only).

  • Career Opportunities

    Join a globally recognized entrepreneurship program in the heart of Los Angeles where business, technology, and innovation converge. USC Marshall graduates launch startups or take on roles in: Startups and scaleups, venture capital / angel investing, corporate innovation teams, product management, social impact ventures.

Highlights Of The MSEI Program

  • A lean, focused curriculum that respects your time.

  • Experience-based learning, not just lectures.


  • A built-in network of bold thinkers and mentors.


  • Quick-launch potential to be ready to innovate in a year.

Real World Experiences

  • Capstone Venture Project

    Capstone Venture Project

    Work in teams to launch or scale a startup idea

  • USC Incubators & Accelerators

    USC Incubators & Accelerators

    Access mentorship, workspace, and seed funding

  • Guest Speakers & Mentors

    Guest Speakers & Mentors

    Learn directly from founders, investors, and industry disruptors

  • Startup Competitions

    Startup Competitions

    Participate in high-stakes pitch contests with funding opportunities

Curriculum

The 27-unit MSEI curriculum blends foundational entrepreneurship with advanced innovation-focused electives. Core courses include Introduction to New Ventures, Technology Commercialization, Investing in New Ventures, and more. Electives allow students to explore areas such as social entrepreneurship, venture capital, design thinking and product development, marketing for startups, and scaling growth-stage companies.

MSEI FACULTY

  • Anthony Borquez

    Anthony Borquez
    • Adjunct Professor of the Practice in Entrepreneurship

    Dr. Anthony Borquez is an expert at building and scaling creative tech businesses. He is the founder of Grab, a leader in augmented and virtual reality. He also founded Blue Label Games, an early leader in mobile game development, later acquired by Konami.

  • Jeremy Brooks Dann

    Jeremy Brooks Dann
    • Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship

    Jeremy Dann has served as an innovation consultant from 2000 to the present, working with such companies as Daimler-Benz, Levi Strauss, Spalding, Lockheed Martin, Guidant and General Electric. Jeremy has collaborated closely with Harvard Business School professor and innovation authority Clayton Christensen—author of The Innovator’s Dilemma—on many research, case development and consulting projects.

  • Albert Douglas Napoli

    Albert Douglas Napoli
    • President of the Marshall Faculty Council
    • Senior Lecturer of Clinical Entrepreneurship

    Albert Napoli is an award-winning instructor at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California, having taught the Entrepreneurial Family Business course for over a decade. During this time, he has gained the unique perspective of the next generations’ insight into productive family business successions and has been able to implement them into his consultations.

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    Marshall School of Business
    Popovich Hall, Suite 308
    Los Angeles, CA 90089-2633

    Phone: 213-740-7846

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