Get an MS in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The nationally recognized programs offer various student opportunities.
Features
Learn and launch your business! Receive academic credit for starting your company. Students with scalable concepts can apply for office space in the Venture Development Center and receive customized mentorship experiences.
This program enables students to conduct due diligence and make investment recommendations for the University’s exclusive venture fund, the UT Dallas Seed Fund.
UT Dallas partners with major technology companies to analyze new market opportunities and pass them on to our students.
Students can work with a startup company or corporation and gain experience while receiving course credit.
Details about the Innovation and Entrepreneurship degree plan
MSIE Program at UT Dallas Rankings
No.15
Top Graduate Entrepreneurship Program
according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur, 2024
No.8
Among U.S. Public Universities
according to The Princeton Review’s Top 50 Entrepreneurship: Grad (2025)
No.3
10 Best States to Start a Business
according to Wallet Hub, 2023
Careers to pursue with an MSIE from UT Dallas
- Founder
- Co-Founder
- CEO
- CTO
- CFO
- VP Marketing
- Chief Information Officer
- Business Development
- Project Management
- R&D
- Finance
- Marketing
- New Product Development
- New Business Models
- Corporate Venture Capital
- Strategy/Strategist
- Chief Innovation Officer
- And More!
- Venture Capital
- Private Equity
- Accelerator
- Incubator
- Angel Group
- Investment Banking
- Corporate Venture Capital
- Early Stage Seed-Funding
- And More!
- Social Impact Leader
- Founder
- Co-Founder
- CEO
- CFO
- Business Development
- VP Marketing
- And More!
Innovation and Entrepreneurship News
Discover how our Innovation and Entrepreneurship faculty, alumni and students are researching, publishing, speaking and engaging in the business community.
Student Spotlight: Cat Kim
Cat Kim is pursuing their Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with an Innovation and Entrepreneurship concentration at the Naveen Jindal School of Management.
Series of Life Events Leads JSOM Grad Student to Entrepreneurship
A graduate student at the Naveen Jindal School of Management looks forward to a promising future in entrepreneurship, having recently won three competitions — and taking home $40,000 in cash and prizes in the process.
Women’s Summit Headliner Kendra Scott Charted Her Own Course to Success
Women attending the fourth annual UT Dallas Women’s Summit were encouraged to chart their own entrepreneurial paths by speakers who included jewelry icon Kendra Scott and Kelly Burton, executive director of the Black Innovation Alliance.
UT Dallas Institute Wins Education Award for Program for Middle-School Girls
The Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has won a specialty education award from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers for efforts to introduce middle-school girls to STEM-based and entrepreneurial careers.
Texas Business Hall of Fame Scholars Began With Bright Ideas in the Food Biz
A Jindal School MBA student and a recent graduate of the Erik Jonsson School will be the 2021 UT Dallas recipients of Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation Scholar Awards meant to encourage their entrepreneurial efforts.
Jindal School Student’s Organizational Efforts Lead to National Office
When a Jindal School business administration student did not find a favorite club on campus, she decided to start a UTD chapter. Once the group was operational, she ran for national office and got elected president.
Senior Wins Student Entrepreneur and Collegiate Marketer of the Year Awards
A marketing senior recently brought home two major competition awards, one from Dallas Startup Week for her entrepreneurship and one from the DFW chapter of the American Marketing Association, which named her Collegiate Marketer of the Year.
Jindal School Students Earn Scholar Award for ‘Rolling with the Punches’
Three Jindal School students have been named recipients of $15,000 Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation Scholarships.The students as well as the foundation have had to make pandemic-related adjustments to doing business.
Welcome Back: Be Sure to Raise Your (Virtual) Hand
Welcome to fall semester, Jindal School students. You have many options to learn and many opportunities to shine. Whether in class in person or attending online, Senior Associate Dean Monica Powell encourages your participation.
A Message from Jindal School Dean Hasan Pirkul
Jindal School Dean Hasan Pirkul reaches out to students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters with an update on the state of the school as classes resume following spring break and during the coronavirus outbreak.
Autonomous Vehicles: A $4 Trillion Disruption
Cars that drive themselves will disrupt far more than the automotive industry, an engineer for a company that helps power such vehicles said at a Jindal School event presented by the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Tech Titans.
UT Dallas Big Idea Competition Sharpens Students’ Entrepreneurial Mindsets
The annual UT Dallas Big Idea Competition awarded a service that helps applicants align their résumés to keywords in job postings the $25,000 grand prize in an event that showcased five other contenders and gave $40,000 in prizes.
UT Dallas Conference Equips Women to Pursue Entrepreneurship
The second annual UT Dallas Women’s Summit offered interviews and inspirational keynotes from groundbreaking entrepreneurs, three rounds of business-building how-to sessions and more encouragement for women to pursue their own paths.
UT Dallas, Jindal School Featured Prominently on List of Young Innovators
A Jindal School graduate and two current students have been named to 2019NTX Inno Under 25, a list of young leaders and entrepreneurs in North Texas under the age of 25. In all, nine of the 14 honorees have UT Dallas ties.
Restaurateur Talks About Successful Entrepreneurship at Weitzman Institute Event
The Herbert D. Weitzman Institute for Real Estate at the Jindal School hosted restaurateur Phil Romano at a special event. Romano, creator of EatZi’s, Trinity Groves and other eateries, spoke about his new book and his journey as an entrepreneur.
Institute’s Innovate(her) Program Earns Tech Titan Award
The Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s Innovate(her) program for middle-school girls won a university-level Tech Titan award for to steering students toward and inspiring them to pursue engineering and technology-related disciplines.
AT&T Funds STEM Learning Company Founded by Jindal School Grad Student
A Jindal School student’s startup is the first North Texas company accepted into an AT&T accelerator program.The STEM-learning company focuses on teaching kids coding, electronics and engineering in a fun way.
JSOM Entrepreneurship Program Leads Enterprising Student to New Career Path
Jindal School courses, Blackstone LaunchPad mentoring, UT Dallas and other university competitions — and even failed ideas — have laid the groundwork for a rising innovator to graduate into a full-time career as an entrepreneur.
Marketing Student Turns Strawberry Beauty Hack Into Hot-Selling Serum
Fragrant strawberries mean the sweet smell of success for a JSOM marketing student who developed a sellout skin-care serum using the aromatic fruit. Using marketing and innovation skills learned at UT Dallas, she is already working on new ideas.
Earth Day Conference Drills Into Energy Entrepreneurship
Innovative ideas in all kinds of energy, from traditional coal, gas and oil, to renewable geothermal, nuclear, solar and wind, were up for discussion at the first Earth Entrepreneurship Forum, held at UT Dallas on Earth Day.
Second Annual EmTech Summit Scores High Marks with Gaming Aficionados
Focused on esports and gaming, the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s second annual Emerging Technologies Summit homed in on their economic viability and highlighted the launch of the UT Dallas esports program.
Cannabis Entrepreneur Plants Business Ideas Among UT Dallas Students
Cannabis and marijuana are illegal in Texas and at the federal level, but entrepreneur Robert Birnbaum said prohibition is fading away during his insider’s look at the industry recently presented by two Jindal School-based institutes.
Speakers Share Valuable Insights at New Wise Words Event
Graduate students on the Jindal School Dean’s Council debuted Wise Words, a TED Talks-inspired event to encourage conversation and out-of-the-box thinking, with presentations from a student, faculty member, community leader and corporate employer.
Entrepreneurship Luminary Offers Advice to Students During UT Dallas Visit
“Obssesion,” VIP entrepreneur Brad Feld told students during a campus visit, is what differentiates a successful startup from one that fails. Feld is co-founder of an accelerator that backs the UT Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Capital Factory Join Forces
An agreement between the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Capital Factory marks the latest in a series of partnerships to elevate the role of UT Dallas in entrepreneur-driven economic development in North Texas and North America.
UT Dallas Seed Fund Invests in Alum’s Child-Friendly Gaming Video Platform
A gaming video platform for kids started by a JSOM online MBA graduate has gained $25,000 from the UT Dallas Seed Fund, a program that invests in technology startups founded by UTD students, faculty, staff, alumni and other program affiliates.
Jindal School Innovation and Entrepreneurship Creator and Crusader Retires
Colleagues, students, alumni, family and friends celebrated the Jindal School’s founder of innovation and entrepreneurship programs and the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Dr. Joseph C. Picken, at a December retirement reception.
Jindal School Students Gain Consulting Experience in Collaborative Class Project
Jindal School graduate students in the Entrepreneurial Experience class served as consultants to a technology consulting company looking for fresh ideas that could transform its business model and lay the foundation for future growth.
Experts Explain How North Texas Can Become Epicenter of Fintech Disruption
New financial technologies — fintech — are reordering the financial services industry. Professionals schooled in the changes made a case for Dallas and the surrounding region’s competitive advantage at a recent NTX Disruptors event at JSOM.
Disruptive Digital Technologies Drive the Need for Innovation
Recent disruptive digital innovations have changed the relative cost calculus and thus the best business structures and best business models in most industries. Digital transformation is underway.
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