Arizona State University - Graduate

Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiatve.
Through the Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative, students are awarded with grants ranging from $1,000 to $20,000. Edson winners are also provided with office space, training and mentoring. To date, over $1 million has been awarded to student teams with innovative venture ideas that focus on everything from K-12 education reform to disaster housing to cardiac arrest response.

The Venture Catalyst. Students interested in speaking with a professional about making their ideas happen can utilize the services of ASU’s Venture Catalyst. The Venture Catalyst provides a suite of venture acceleration services that are designed to help ventures, in all stages of development, grow and succeed. Some of these services include legal counsel, startup assessments, startup boot camps, mentoring opportunities, workshops and office hours.

Classes, Certificates and Degrees. Over 10,000 students enroll in ASU entrepreneurship classes each year. ASU offers over 90 entrepreneurship courses and a wide variety of degrees and certificates. Students of all majors and interests are encouraged to enroll.

Internships. Students who are eager to learn from local entrepreneurs can intern with them to gain experience through the Sun Devil Entrepreneurship Network (SDEN). SDEN interns come from all majors and interests and learn through working closely with professionals and entrepreneurs.

Hackspace. Students can find free co-working and collaborative workspace at Hackspace. Hackspace, located at SkySong, the Scottsdale Innovation Center, provides open space for students with common interests to meet, socialize, work and/or collaborate.

Legal Support and Clinic Opportunities. The Innovation Advancement Program (IAP) and the Lisa Foundation Patent Law Clinic are housed in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Students seeking legal advice for their ventures can receive support from either of these resources. The Innovation Advancement Program provides students with legal and consulting services, while the Lisa Foundation Patent Law Clinic provides student entrepreneurs with patent prosecution, licensing and litigation services. Both programs allow graduate students to practice and refine their legal skills, while providing invaluable service to student entrepreneurs.

Over 90 entrepreneurship courses are offered at ASU. See below for a list of some of our most popular offerings.

Digital Media Entrepreneurship
MCO 598: Digital Media Entrepreneurship
MGT 594: Digital Media Entrepreneurship

Students enrolled in Digital Media Entrepreneurship in the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication become familiar with the latest developments on the digital media landscape while learning the essential principles of entrepreneurship necessary for them to forge their own sustainable niche within it.

The course is a part of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and has its own lab and office space in the digital media wing of the Cronkite School’s new state-of-the-art complex in downtown Phoenix. It adjoins the New Media Innovation Lab, a research and development institute established in 2006 that works with major media companies on digital product development.

Open to undergraduates and graduate students of all disciplines.

GlobalResolve
IND 494: Global Resolve: Product Design for the Developing World
SOS 494: Global Resolve: Product Design for the Developing World

Through GlobalResolve, ASU students and faculty collaborate with international universities, residents of rural villages, local governments, financial institutions, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to develop and disseminate no-tech, low-tech, and high-tech solutions that address pressing public health or environmental needs of a developing-world population.

Because solutions developed by GlobalResolve are designed to be replicable locally, regionally, and internationally, the solutions also create the potential for profitable new business ventures that generate sustainable income streams for impacted populations. Past successful ventures to launch from GlobalResolve include Daylight Solutions, which created the Aura Light, a device that uses the waste heat from cooking embers to create electricity.

Open to undergraduates and graduate students of all disciplines.

Social Enterprise
JUS 497: Social Enterprises: Innovation, Justice and Community Development
JUS 591: Social Enterprises: Innovation, Justice and Community Development

Social Enterprises is a hybrid course that provides students with the opportunity to learn about the theory and practice of social enterprise and to reflect critically on their contribution to social innovation within a dynamic setting.

Students are embedded with social enterprises in the Phoenix area to help develop and implement social innovation projects. In addition to providing students with a platform to engage in practical experience and social and civic skill building, the enrolled students make a direct contribution to the social economy by fostering practical knowledge, collaborative networking, and social solidarity.

Open to graduate students of all disciplines

In August 2008, Newsweek recognized Arizona State University as “one of the most radical redesigns in higher learning. “ The following measures are evidence that it is possible for a university to maintain academic excellence, open its doors to all qualified students, engage in use-inspired, as well as curiosity-driven, research and to take significant responsibility for the economic, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves.

• Considered one of the most prominent world university rankings, the Academic Ranking of World Universities, compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ranked ASU 81st among the top 500 universities in the world.

• Forbes placed ASU in the No. 28 spot on its list of 100 of “American’s Best Colleges” based on students’ satisfaction with their course instruction, indicators of their post-graduate employment success, four-year graduation rates, student and faculty success in competitive academic and research awards, and the four-year debt load for typical student borrowers.

• ASU was ranked fifth among “Top Up and Coming Schools” by the U.S. News & World Report, which highlights schools to watch in terms of promising and innovative changes in academics, faculty, students, campus life, diversity and facilities.

• In fall 2009, 31 percent of the ASU freshman class were in the top 10 percent of their high school class and 57 percent in the top 25 percent.

• ASU produced 20 Fulbright Scholars and was the second highest public university in the nation in producing student Fulbright Scholars.

• 613 National Merit Scholars were enrolled in ASU in fall 2009.

• 362 National Hispanic Scholars were enrolled at ASU in fall 2009.  ASU has been more successful in attracting these top scholars than any other school.

• In fiscal year 2010, ASU had 473 community outreach programs in 548 locations, offered by 149 units, totaling 1,153 outreach opportunities.

• Announced in September 2010 by Ashoka, a global non-profit network of more than 2,500 social entrepreneurs, ASU’s commitment to higher education as an agent for positive social change earned the university a place in the Changemaker Campus Consortium.

School type: Public

Rolling Admission: Yes

Application fee: $70 (domestic); $90 (international)

Student Profile:
Enrollment: 13,787
Average GMAT: 613.2
GMAT Range (25-75%):  55.1%
Average Undergrad GPA: 3.45
Average Age: 31
Acceptance Rate: 49%
Percentage of international students: 16.1%
Percentage of minority students: 18.8%

Programs & Curriculum:

Part Time Program: Yes
Evening Program: Yes

Executive MBA Program Offered: Yes
Faculty Profile:
Number of full-time faculty: 2,752
Student/Faculty ratio: 24:1

Number and percentage of faculty who are entrepreneurs: 42%

Employment:
Average Starting Salary: $64,449
Graduates employed at graduation: 87.7%
Start their own business: 1.3%
Hired Consulting: N/A
Hired Finance: N/A
Hired Operations: N/A
Hired Marketing: N/A

Financial:
Out-of-State Tuition: $16,881
In-State Tuition:  $8,848
Room and Board: $16,000
Financial Aid Deadline: March 1

For information regarding graduate entrepreneurship opportunities at the university, please contact:
Jennifer Cason
Student Initiatives Coordinator
Arizona State University
Graduate College
PO Box 1003
Tempe, AZ  85287-1003
480-965-8968
Jennifer.cason@asu.edu

To speak with an ASU graduate admissions representative, please contact:
Graduate Enrollment Services
Arizona State University
PO Box 1003
Tempe, AZ  85287-1003
480-965-6113
Grad-ges@asu.edu