The MBA in Entrepreneurship (MBAe) helps you gain the necessary skills, meet the right people and develop your entrepreneurial project. It is for people who have ideas and want to see them through either as a start-up entrepreneur or as a change agent in existing organisations. Read all this before?
UTS Business School’s Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship (MBAe) is a unique 1 or 2-year intensive MBA designed for entrepreneurs and innovators. The flexible modular structure of the program allows students to study the program in stages while developing and working on their entrepreneurial or innovation project. Students also have access to a project space - the Venture Lab, a mentor program and non-award based master classes and events with entrepreneurs and industry partners.
Course structure
The MBA in Entrepreneurship is uniquely designed as three integrated modules, Commercialisation, Entrepreneurship and Venture Acceleration, that build your capabilities and confidence as you progress through the program.
Autumn: Commercialisation - Gaining and applying key business skills
Start-up Finance and Accounting
6CP (intensive block classes)
Develop an understanding of how finance and accounting information is used to support strategic and operational decision making for early ventures. You will gain a basic understanding of finance and accounting concepts and help plan and deliver financial management-related aspects of early ventures and small businesses.
Teaching staff Associate Professor Prabhu Sivabalan and Professor Dave Michayluk
Start-up Data, Marketing and Sales
6CP (intensive block classes)
Gain a basic understanding of how to collect and interpret data about markets, customer behaviour, experiences and sales to help a path to market for new ventures and launch new and innovative products or services. Remove much of the guess work from start-ups as you learn about market segmentation, marketing and sales strategies and how use analytical techniques to make evidence-based and data-driven decisions.
Teaching staff William Page (opens external LinkedIn profile)
Opportunity Commercialisation
12CP (intensive block classes)
Understand the operations of an early-stage enterprise.
Integrates your newly formed knowledge in accounting, finance, data analysis and marketing with entrepreneurship, innovation, commercialisation and strategic management as you learn how to evaluate a business opportunity and develop it through the various stages of commercialisation towards an operational business model for early-stage enterprises.
Teaching staff Professor David Brown
Spring: Entrepreneurship - Building relationships and strategic capacity
Leadership, Teams & Scalability
6CP (intensive block classes)
Learn how to be an effective leader and manage people and organisational growth in early-stage enterprises. You will examine core issues such as setting expectations, understanding individual behaviour and motivation, job and culture design, managing performance, mentoring and developing staff, and providing effective rewards and incentives for good performance.
Teaching staff Dr Tim Rayner (opens external LinkedIn profile)
Start-up Structures, IP and Negotiation
6CP (intensive block classes)
This subject develops knowledge in governance, contracting and negotiation for early-stage enterprises. Learn how to set up a business, get things started and operational. The key aspects covered are business law, agreements, corporate structures, intellectual property, professional advice and other relevant regulations. You also learn about principles of ethical business practices and develop your negotiation skills.
Teaching staff Lynne Teo (opens external LinkedIn profile)
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Practice
12CP (weekly evening plus intensive block classes)
Work on a live start-up or innovation project in this subject that focuses on the professional practices of developing corporate and entrepreneurial strategies. Drawing on knowledge of strategy, design thinking, data analytics and start-up methods, you will work with real clients to investigate a strategic challenge and create innovative solutions and recommendations. The aim of this subject is to provide you with the knowledge and skills required for examining, designing, testing, improving or redesigning viable businesses.
Teaching staff Dr Jochen Schweitzer and Tarra van Amerongen (opens external LinkedIn profile)
Summer: Venture acceleration - Developing your business key value proposition
Founder at Heart
6CP (block mode)
This subject helps you appreciate your entrepreneurial purpose, integrate your profile, build your resilience and learn about alternative business models. Founding a venture requires imagination, courage and strength of character. Every founder is different and Silicon Valley best practices may not serve all. Founders need to identify their own 'why' and 'how' to cradle their idea, so that they build a business that suits their character, team and market need. This subject combines purpose, resilience training and systems thinking to helps founders find a business model and not run out of steam..
Teaching staff Dr Ele Jansen (opens link to external site)
Venture Growth and Internationalisation
6CP (block mode)
Equip yourself with the knowledge and tools necessary to leverage international opportunities for your start-up. This subject investigates the dynamics of launching and managing a business in different international environments, as well as the additional oversight challenges that come with growing an existing business into new territories. The subject will give you a global lens through which you can test and validate an emerging business idea or start-up.
Teaching staff Rob Deeming (opens external LinkedIn profile)
Venture Planning and Pitching
12CP (block mode)
This capstone subject is about creating or re-thinking an entrepreneurial proposal around a clear customer need. Develop the building blocks of your venture by aligning resources, processes and revenue streams with a new value proposition as you design, test, improve and redesign your business model before pitching your proposal to a panel of experts and potential investors.
Teaching staff Dr Jochen Schweitzer and UTS Entrepreneur in Residence Tom Bass (opens external LinkedIn profile)
Flexibility is the key
Don't put your career or entrepreneurial dreams on hold. The MBAe is designed to be undertaken while you work, with classes mostly at night and on weekends. While the full MBA in Entrepreneurship can be completed in one calendar year you can also:
- complete the MBAe over two years by reducing your study load
- start with the Graduate Certificate of Commercialisation, which consists of the first module, to get a taste of what it will be like to study the MBAe. This may also be an option for people with professional work experience but no prior university education
- continue on with either of the other two modules as separate Graduate Certificates in Entrepreneurship or Venture Acceleration
Venture Day
At the conclusion of the MBAe, students pitch their venture, refined and perfected over the previous year, to experts, entrepreneurs and potential investors. In 2017 the winning project, Dlivee, secured $25,000 in seed-funding and support. Learn more about the 2018 event here and in the video below.
The student experience
The MBAe challenges the boundaries of years of professional experience.
Ann Hoban
MBAe graduate and Director City Life at City of Sydney
It has the perfect mix of theory and practical application...
Liam Daly
MBAe graduate, founder Delivee
Entrepreneurship is something you only learn by doing, and this course does exactly that.
Petra Andrén
CEO Cicada Innovations and MBAe Venture Day Judge
How your year will look
All classes in the MBAe are taught either on weeknights or weekends. To get a feel for how your year will look, check out the current MBAe cohort's calendar. Note that your year's classes may change.
Next steps
More Information and master classes | Contact us with your questions | Submit your application for the next intake |
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Explore the MBAe course in more detail online, Download a copy of the MBAe flyer, or come and chat with the MBAe Course Director, fellow students and other experts at an one of our Info Nights. Alternatively, start tapping into our entrepreneurial ecosystem and attend a Master class or workshop |
Email us at mbae@uts.edu.au or complete an online enquiry form. | You can apply for the next intake into the MBAe online, free of charge. |