OSU to offer master's degree in entrepreneurship
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
(April 28, 2010 Stillwater, OK) – The Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State
University will offer a new master’s degree in entrepreneurship this fall. The program
was approved Thursday by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and is a
component of the university-wide entrepreneurship emphasis at OSU.
The Master of Science in Entrepreneurship (MSE) will provide students with rigorous
immersion into the nature of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial process and
adds to the OSU School of Entrepreneurship’s advanced, experiential learning-based
undergraduate and doctoral programs in entrepreneurship.
"The MSE is a special degree aimed at helping students turn their promising ideas
into viable ventures," said Michael H. Morris, professor and head of the OSU School
of Entrepreneurship. “Students will actually start ventures during the program, while
being exposed to a world class mix of courses and other experiential learning opportunities.”
The OSU entrepreneurship program is two-pronged, consisting of the academic-focused
OSU School of Entrepreneurship and the outreach-focused Riata Center for Entrepreneurship.
The program was jump-started by a multi-million dollar gift from OSU alumni Amy and
Malone Mitchell 3rd in 2008. The School of Entrepreneurship launched in January of
2009, followed by the launch of the Riata Center a few months later.
The master’s degree in entrepreneurship is targeted at students with a passion for
entrepreneurship in for-profit, non-profit and public sector contexts. It consists
of 33 credit hours of coursework and can be completed in one year. Seven to 10 students
will be admitted to the program for the fall 2010 semester. The program will be offered
as both a traditional on-campus degree and via distance learning.
“We are targeting students with undergraduate backgrounds in the sciences, engineering,
art, social work or most any other discipline, and who have a dream to start their
own venture. Some of these will be non-traditional students who have been out of
school for awhile” said Bruce Barringer, OSU professor and Pope Chair of entrepreneurship,
who also will be coordinating the master’s program.
The Master of Science in Entrepreneurship degree program will be launched this coming
Fall. For more information or to apply to the program, call the OSU School of Entrepreneurship
at 405-744-3325 or email entrepreneurship@okstate.edu.