Entrepreneurship Initiatives
Building San Diego's entrepreneurship ecosystem
San Diego State University cultivates entrepreneurial drive among students, faculty, staff, and alumni through our on-campus incubator, internships, events, and programming for the entire San Diego community.
Zahn Innovation Platform Launchpad
Does your fledgling start-up idea need some support? The ZIP Launchpad is a competitive incubator that helps students, faculty, and staff turn their entrepreneurial ambitions into marketable realities.
Lavin Entrepreneurship Center
Workshops, mentorship, funding and so much more. SDSU’s award-winning entrepreneurship center provides critical resources and education to students interested in entrepreneurship.
Academic Opportunities
Fowler College of Business offers a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration in entrepreneurship. This distinctive program helps students master core concepts of entrepreneurship, the financing of emerging enterprises, and successful business plan development.
For undergraduates, Fowler offers a Bachelor's Degree in Management with a specialization in entrepreneurship.
Fowler also offers an Entrepreneurship Minor, which requires students to work closely with SDSU's highly-regarded Lavin Entrepreneurship Center. The minor has five tracks students can choose from, including science and technology, art and design, and social innovation.
Fowler and the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts offer a Music Entrepreneurship and Business major, the first of its kind in the U.S. The program gives all artistically qualified students a platform to develop their musical talents while also developing practical skills. Whether a student’s background and interests are in classical music, jazz studies or composition, this degree provides coursework and experiential learning on how to translate artistic talent into the confident pursuit of meaningful opportunities.
Course Options
Social Entrepreneurship: This course helps students build entrepreneurial skills to craft innovative responses to social needs. It teaches things like social mission, launching and building a social venture and developing social returns to an enterprise.
International Entrepreneurship: This course teaches students about launching and managing an international entrepreneurial venture, including skills like how to identify opportunities in foreign markets, the logistics of international business expansion, and cross-cultural business communication.
Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship: Like the course title suggests, this course teaches students the successful building blocks of entrepreneurship, like the process of initiating, expanding, purchasing and consolidating businesses. It also teaches concepts, theories and techniques of managerial innovation and implementation.
On Campus
In addition to the university's award-winning incubator and entrepreneurship center, SDSU hosts entrepreneurial-minded clubs and events. The Entrepreneur Society at SDSU is a student group that brings together entrepreneurially minded students and works to help them approach entrepreneurship with passion and resolve. The group hosts events like workshops, visits from local entrepreneurs and pitch competitions.