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Develop Your Creative Confidence

Entrepreneurship Department

In this time of fluid, lean business practices, it’s valuable to bring entrepreneurial skills and an innovative mindset to the table. Whether you want to start a new venture or innovate within an existing company, the Entrepreneurship department at St. Thomas gives you the competitive edge you seek.

Become a More Innovative Thinker

Our entrepreneurship department offers both graduate and undergraduate study options. Earn an MBA, or BA with an entrepreneurship concentration. Round out a BA of another concentration with an entrepreneurship minor or take a single class.

At St. Thomas, we believe that entrepreneurship isn’t just for startups. Everyone can benefit from learning to think like an entrepreneur. We teach students to create environments where entrepreneurial ideas can flourish, to identify and evaluate new opportunities and to transform innovations into sustainable businesses.

Experienced, accessible faculty provide the outstanding instruction and support you need to embark on an entrepreneurship career or enhance your current credentials. Our experiential, hands-on curriculum develops your creative voice and confidence and prepares you to make a professional impact. Graduate students attend class on the Minneapolis campus in Schulze Hall. Undergraduates have the opportunity to utilize our new innovation space in St. Paul and the [create]space in the Anderson Student Center.

Learn more about our entrepreneurship programs, resources and faculty. Have questions? Please contact us.

Undergraduate Students: (651) 962-5544
Graduate Students: (651) 962-4200

Contact

Dr. Jay Ebben

Entrepreneurship Department Chair
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Email
JJEBBEN@stthomas.edu
Phone Number
(651) 962-5077
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The Schulze School of Entrepreneurship

The Schulze School of Entrepreneurship is home to our undergraduate and graduate degree programs in entrepreneurship. The Schulze School also houses the [create]space and our new innovation center in St. Paul, as well as the centers and institutes that provide entrepreneurial education and services to the public.

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Explore the Entrepreneurship Department

  • Academic Programs and Research Opportunities
  • Internships
  • Career Development Resources

    • Academic Programs and Research Opportunities

    Whether you’re an undergraduate or graduate student, St. Thomas has the programs and courses you need to develop your entrepreneurial expertise. The Schulze School of Entrepreneurship brings together the university's graduate and undergraduate degree programs in entrepreneurship.

    Undergrads can prepare to become entrepreneurs or run a family business with concentrations in those areas. Graduate students in MBA programs can choose to focus on new-venture management/entrepreneurship. This combination gives students the wide-ranging business education of an MBA, as well as advanced skills in entrepreneurship.

    Explore Entrepreneurship Degrees and Concentrations

    Undergraduate concentrations:

    Graduate programs:

    Internships

    Local companies, large and small, startups and established, seek out our entrepreneurially minded students for internships. Many internships are paid, some turn into careers, and all are valuable. Our unique Entrepreneurial Fellowship places student interns in early-stage companies. Students who take on an Entrepreneurial Fellowship work with a faculty member to present what they’ve learned in class.

    Career Development Resources

    Our goal is to help you find the right home for your unique creative vision and voice, whether that’s in your own business or an existing one. The Career Development team at the Schulze School can help you explore your options, find job opportunities and prepare to interview.
    Schulze School Career Development

    Academic Programs and Research Opportunities

    Whether you’re an undergraduate or graduate student, St. Thomas has the programs and courses you need to develop your entrepreneurial expertise. The Schulze School of Entrepreneurship brings together the university's graduate and undergraduate degree programs in entrepreneurship.

    Undergrads can prepare to become entrepreneurs or run a family business with concentrations in those areas. Graduate students in MBA programs can choose to focus on new-venture management/entrepreneurship. This combination gives students the wide-ranging business education of an MBA, as well as advanced skills in entrepreneurship.

    Explore Entrepreneurship Degrees and Concentrations

    Undergraduate concentrations:

    Graduate programs:

    Internships

    Local companies, large and small, startups and established, seek out our entrepreneurially minded students for internships. Many internships are paid, some turn into careers, and all are valuable. Our unique Entrepreneurial Fellowship places student interns in early-stage companies. Students who take on an Entrepreneurial Fellowship work with a faculty member to present what they’ve learned in class.

    Career Development Resources

    Our goal is to help you find the right home for your unique creative vision and voice, whether that’s in your own business or an existing one. The Career Development team at the Schulze School can help you explore your options, find job opportunities and prepare to interview.
    Schulze School Career Development

    Competitions & Scholarships

    Sharpen your competitive edge and earn financial support in several competitions at St. Thomas:

    Entrepreneurship Challenge

    The nation's largest undergraduate business pitch competition gives funding to the top presenters, to support their budding businesses.

    The Fowler Business Concept Challenge

    Undergraduate and graduate students can compete in two different tracks: The Business Concept Track for those focused on more traditional commercial ventures, and the Social Venture Track, for students whose ventures aim to solve social problems. Scholarships are awarded to the top four finishers and best presenter in each track.

    Schulze Innovation Scholarship

    This four-year full-tuition scholarship and premier academic program helps to launch the careers of students ready to tackle big challenges through innovation and entrepreneurial leadership. We admit up to 10 first-year and transfer students to the program each year. Application required.

    Featured Faculty

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    Shinwon Noh, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship

    Shinwon Noh is a passionate teacher and deeply committed to creating an engaging and experiential learning environment for entrepreneurship students. Outside the classroom, her research interests are cultural entrepreneurship, career and occupations, and emergence of new business categories. She has published in management and sociology journals with her work focusing on the creative industries and community-based philanthropy. She earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University.

    Read Dr. Shinwon Noh's Bio
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    David Deeds, Ph.D.

    Professor, Schulze Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship and Director of the Morrison Center

    David Deeds is the Schulze endowed chair in entrepreneurship and research director of the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship. He is editor in chief of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Exchange, a site dedicated to translating leading edge research and thought on entrepreneurship, innovation and family business into content that is easily consumed. Deeds is also the founder and director of e-Fest, a national business plan competition for undergraduate students, which awards $250,000 in cash prizes annually.

    Read Dr. David Deeds' Bio
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    Casey Frid, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship

    Casey Frid, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship. He studies entrepreneurship and strategy and has published papers in top academic journals on topics ranging from early stage venture creation to collaborative strategies among firms. He teaches courses on entrepreneurial thinking and strategy in the graduate and undergraduate programs, and he has given seminars on these topics at the University of Queensland, Illinois State University, and the College of Charleston.

    Read Dr. Casey Frid's Bio

    Entrepreneurship Faculty

    Part-time/Adjunct Faculty

    • Jack Dempsey
    • Mo Fahnestock
    • Jeanne Glass
    • Adam Rao
    • Elaine Rasmussen
    • Kjrk Reyerson
    • Michael Sarafolean
    • Mike Wuolett

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