Master of Science in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Is innovation in your DNA, too?

UT Dallas was born out of innovation, so we don’t just teach it – we live it.

Our UT Dallas founders, Eugene McDermott, J. Erik Jonsson and Cecil Green, were entrepreneurs — founders of the company that spawned Texas Instruments — and our University is a testament to the entrepreneurial spirit they imprinted on our institutional DNA.

The Master’s in Innovation and Entrepreneurship program offers a vast range of programming like student clubs, pitch competitions and speaker events (encompassing panels, workshops, fireside chats and guest talks) that support the entrepreneurial spirit of our students.

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Where Do We Stand

no.15

Top Graduate Entrepreneurship Program

according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur, 2024

no.4

Best Masters in Entrepreneurship Programs – Southwest Region

according to The Princeton Review, 2024

no.3

10 Best States to Start a Business

according to Wallet Hub, 2023

no.7

Healthiest Startup Community

according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce “Innovation That Matters” report, Dallas has the seventh-healthiest startup community in America.

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Education With an Emphasis on Experience

You get the best of both: Exceptional in-class instruction led by world-class faculty and an extensive catalog of experience-based courses delivered by successful entrepreneurs.

Our students have the opportunity to tap into customizable, hands-on programs developed by industry experts. Our students learn real-world skills and knowledge that support entrepreneurial success and an entrepreneurial mindset.

You can customize your results-oriented curriculum to align with your goals, including concentrating in New Venture or Innovation with the Corporation.


Startup Launch

enable students to launch companies while receiving academic credit. Students with scalable concepts can apply for office space in the Venture Development Center and receive customized mentorship experiences.

Seed Fund Venture Analyst Program

lets you conduct due diligence and make investment recommendations for the University’s exclusive venture fund, the UT Dallas Seed Fund.

The Entrepreneurial Experience

partners with major technology companies to analyze new market opportunities.

Internships

provide students with the opportunity to work with a startup company or corporation, getting paid while gaining experience and receiving course credit.

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Turn your ideas into business results.

If you’re looking for a master’s degree program that will arm you with the necessary tools to marry your creative ideas with business savvy, look no further than the Master’s in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Don’t take our word for it. Hear what our students and alumni have to say about the secret to their success.

Student Testimonials

Chris Bagwell

Chris Bagwell, MS 19

Senior Business Analyst, Pizza Hut

The Master’s in Innovation and Entrepreneurship is more than an education in how to start a business. The program’s excellent professors bring a wealth of experience and a vast network to give you real-world insight that you can’t find in a textbook. Not only has the MSIE program given me the necessary technical skills to start a business, but it has also introduced me to experienced professionals who have shared decades’ worth of lessons learned. 
Mark Kukiz

Mark Kukiz, MS 19

Product Manager, Peloton

The Professional MBA at UT Dallas provided the flexibility for a tailor-made education with subjects I am most passionate about. The MS in Innovation and Entrepreneurship curriculum enhanced my MBA through practical undertakings in both startup and corporate intrapreneurship settings. The cohort program was a differentiator, enabling the collaborative, in-person experience I was looking for. 
Jim Ramsey

James Ramsey, MS 19

I enrolled in the Master of Science degree program in Innovation & Entrepreneurship right after leaving Xerox Corporation in late 2017. I found the UT Dallas courses extremely interesting, and JSOM has assembled a great team of instructors that bring both academic and real-world credentials and experiences. 
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Open the door to endless career opportunities.

The Master’s in Innovation and Entrepreneurship program focuses on your personal, professional journey.

Whether you want to leverage your new skills to catalyze your current career or use them to launch your own successful business, our degree program will teach you how to design and launch the future you want.

We Cover All the Bases

Innovation and Entrepreneurship are not “one size fits all.” There are many possibilities. We offer resources and guidance, along with access to successful entrepreneurs and leading professionals from all aspects of the business world. UT Dallas is also located in a home built for startups, budding entrepreneurs and corporations of all sizes.


Career Paths Roadmap for Innovation & Entrepreneurship

You can tailor your degree to pursue a wide range of career paths.

Startup Company

Founder | Co-Founder | CEO | CTO | CFO | VP Marketing | Chief Information Officer and more

Corporation

Business Development | Project Management | R&D | Finance | Marketing | New Product Development | New Business Models | Corporate Venture Capital | Strategy/Strategist | Chief Innovation Officer and more

Investment Professional

Venture Capital | Private Equity | Accelerator | Incubator | Angel Group | Investment Banking | Corporate Venture Capital | Early Stage Seed-Funding and more

Nonprofit Organizations

Founder | Co-Founder | CEO | CFO | Business Development | VP Marketing and more

Class Profile – Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Demographic and Other Information – Spring 2017

30

Average Age

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Gender

36% Female
64% Male

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International Mix

59% U.S.
41% International

25

Number of ENTP Courses

3.5

Average GPA

676

Total Course Enrollment

Up 23% from prior year

25

Average Class Size

Innovation and Entrepreneurship News

Discover how Innovation and Entrepreneurship faculty are researching, publishing, speaking and engaging in the business community. The authors of these articles also include Innovation and Entrepreneurship students, staff and friends.

JSOM Business Administration student Cat Kim.

Student Spotlight: Cat Kim

Cat Kim is pursuing their Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with an Innovation and Entrepreneurship concentration at the Naveen Jindal School of Management.

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Series of Life Events Leads JSOM Grad Student to Entrepreneurship

A graduate student at the Naveen Jindal School of Management looks forward to a promising future in entrepreneurship, having recently won three competitions — and taking home $40,000 in cash and prizes in the process.

Women’s Summit Headliner Kendra Scott Charted Her Own Course to Success

Women attending the fourth annual UT Dallas Women’s Summit were encouraged to chart their own entrepreneurial paths by speakers who included jewelry icon Kendra Scott and Kelly Burton, executive director of the Black Innovation Alliance.

UT Dallas Institute Wins Education Award for Program for Middle-School Girls

The Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has won a specialty education award from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers for efforts to introduce middle-school girls to STEM-based and entrepreneurial careers.

Rohit Shenoy and Mercedes Johnson

Texas Business Hall of Fame Scholars Began With Bright Ideas in the Food Biz

A Jindal School MBA student and a recent graduate of the Erik Jonsson School will be the 2021 UT Dallas recipients of Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation Scholar Awards meant to encourage their entrepreneurial efforts.

Jindal School Student’s Organizational Efforts Lead to National Office

When a Jindal School business administration student did not find a favorite club on campus, she decided to start a UTD chapter. Once the group was operational, she ran for national office and got elected president.

Varika Pinnam

Senior Wins Student Entrepreneur and Collegiate Marketer of the Year Awards

A marketing senior recently brought home two major competition awards, one from Dallas Startup Week for her entrepreneurship and one from the DFW chapter of the American Marketing Association, which named her Collegiate Marketer of the Year.

Jindal School Students Earn Scholar Award for ‘Rolling with the Punches’

Three Jindal School students have been named recipients of $15,000 Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation Scholarships.The students as well as the foundation have had to make pandemic-related adjustments to doing business.

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Welcome Back: Be Sure to Raise Your (Virtual) Hand

Welcome to fall semester, Jindal School students. You have many options to learn and many opportunities to shine. Whether in class in person or attending online, Senior Associate Dean Monica Powell encourages your participation.

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A Message from Jindal School Dean Hasan Pirkul

Jindal School Dean Hasan Pirkul reaches out to students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters with an update on the state of the school as classes resume following spring break and during the coronavirus outbreak.

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Autonomous Vehicles: A $4 Trillion Disruption

Cars that drive themselves will disrupt far more than the automotive industry, an engineer for a company that helps power such vehicles said at a Jindal School event presented by the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Tech Titans.

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UT Dallas Big Idea Competition Sharpens Students’ Entrepreneurial Mindsets

The annual UT Dallas Big Idea Competition awarded a service that helps applicants align their résumés to keywords in job postings the $25,000 grand prize in an event that showcased five other contenders and gave $40,000 in prizes.

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UT Dallas Conference Equips Women to Pursue Entrepreneurship

The second annual UT Dallas Women’s Summit offered interviews and inspirational keynotes from groundbreaking entrepreneurs, three rounds of business-building how-to sessions and more encouragement for women to pursue their own paths.

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UT Dallas, Jindal School Featured Prominently on List of Young Innovators

A Jindal School graduate and two current students have been named to 2019NTX Inno Under 25, a list of young leaders and entrepreneurs in North Texas under the age of 25. In all, nine of the 14 honorees have UT Dallas ties.

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Restaurateur Talks About Successful Entrepreneurship at Weitzman Institute Event

The Herbert D. Weitzman Institute for Real Estate at the Jindal School hosted restaurateur Phil Romano at a special event. Romano, creator of EatZi’s, Trinity Groves and other eateries, spoke about his new book and his journey as an entrepreneur.

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Institute’s Innovate(her) Program Earns Tech Titan Award

The Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s Innovate(her) program for middle-school girls won a university-level Tech Titan award for to steering students toward and inspiring them to pursue engineering and technology-related disciplines.

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AT&T Funds STEM Learning Company Founded by Jindal School Grad Student

A Jindal School student’s startup is the first North Texas company accepted into an AT&T accelerator program.The STEM-learning company focuses on teaching kids coding, electronics and engineering in a fun way.

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JSOM Entrepreneurship Program Leads Enterprising Student to New Career Path

Jindal School courses, Blackstone LaunchPad mentoring, UT Dallas and other university competitions — and even failed ideas — have laid the groundwork for a rising innovator to graduate into a full-time career as an entrepreneur.

JSOM Marketing student, Varika Pinnam, on the UT Dallas campus

Marketing Student Turns Strawberry Beauty Hack Into Hot-Selling Serum

Fragrant strawberries mean the sweet smell of success for a JSOM marketing student who developed a sellout skin-care serum using the aromatic fruit. Using marketing and innovation skills learned at UT Dallas, she already is working on new ideas.

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Earth Day Conference Drills Into Energy Entrepreneurship

Innovative ideas in all kinds of energy, from traditional coal, gas and oil, to renewable geothermal, nuclear, solar and wind, were up for discussion at the first Earth Entrepreneurship Forum, held at UT Dallas on Earth Day.

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Second Annual EmTech Summit Scores High Marks with Gaming Aficionados

Focused on esports and gaming, the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s second annual Emerging Technologies Summit homed in on their economic viability and highlighted the launch of the UT Dallas esports program.

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Cannabis Entrepreneur Plants Business Ideas Among UT Dallas Students

Cannabis and marijuana are illegal in Texas and at the federal level, but entrepreneur Robert Birnbaum said prohibition is fading away during his insider’s look at the industry recently presented by two Jindal School-based institutes.

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Speakers Share Valuable Insights at New Wise Words Event

Graduate students on the Jindal School Dean’s Council debuted Wise Words, a TED Talks-inspired event to encourage conversation and out-of-the-box thinking, with presentations from a student, faculty member, community leader and corporate employer.

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Entrepreneurship Luminary Offers Advice to Students During UT Dallas Visit

“Obssesion,” VIP entrepreneur Brad Feld told students during a campus visit, is what differentiates a successful startup from one that fails. Feld is co-founder of an accelerator that backs the UT Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Capital Factory Join Forces

An agreement between the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Capital Factory marks the latest in a series of partnerships to elevate the role of UT Dallas in entrepreneur-driven economic development in North Texas and North America.

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UT Dallas Seed Fund Invests in Alum’s Child-Friendly Gaming Video Platform

A gaming video platform for kids started by a JSOM online MBA graduate has gained $25,000 from the UT Dallas Seed Fund, a program that invests in technology startups founded by UTD students, faculty, staff, alumni and other program affiliates.

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Jindal School Innovation and Entrepreneurship Creator and Crusader Retires

Colleagues, students, alumni, family and friends celebrated the Jindal School’s founder of innovation and entrepreneurship programs and the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Dr. Joseph C. Picken, at a December retirement reception.

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Jindal School Students Gain Consulting Experience in Collaborative Class Project

Jindal School graduate students in the Entrepreneurial Experience class served as consultants to a technology consulting company looking for fresh ideas that could transform its business model and lay the foundation for future growth.

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Experts Explain How North Texas Can Become Epicenter of Fintech Disruption

New financial technologies — fintech — are reordering the financial services industry. Professionals schooled in the changes made a case for Dallas and the surrounding region’s competitive advantage at a recent NTX Disruptors event at JSOM.

Digital Technologies

Disruptive Digital Technologies Drive the Need for Innovation

Recent disruptive digital innovations have changed the relative cost calculus and thus the best business structures and best business models in most industries. Digital transformation is underway.

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