Academics
Social entrepreneurs chart their own course. Don't just get a job, create your own while striving to make the world a better place.
The Social Entrepreneurship graduate certificate is a 12-credit graduate degree program taught online, offering maximum flexibility to accommodate busy schedules. Students can complete this curriculum in as little as 9 months (or as many as 3 years).
Upon completion, you will be able to:
- Use the principles of human-centered design to identify societal, community, and individual needs.
- Apply concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship in new ventures and existing ventures.
- Identify and apply tools, methods, and self-reflection techniques necessary to evaluate the market viability of new ideas.
- Identify various social, health, and biomedical enterprise strategies and critically assess their effectiveness in economic development and social transformation.
- Demonstrate the ability to develop and execute a work plan leading to a social, health, or biomedical innovation.
- Build strong professional relationships with and draw upon the resources of faculty, community practitioners and entrepreneurs, student colleagues, and external advisors.
- Explain basic principles of accounting, financing models, equity financing, investing and different types of funding including crowdfunding, angel investors, grants, and venture capital.
- Develop a sustainable business and financing model to advance a health or social innovation concept, emphasizing principles of growth strategies and scaling.
- Conduct a market analysis and apply the marketing mix as it relates to health and social enterprises.
- Develop a marketing plan for a social, health, or biomedical venture.
Social Entrepreneurship certificate graduates will leave the program prepared to impact the world around them.
