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Entrepreneurship & Technology Minor (RSM-MN-009)

The Rady School of Management’s Entrepreneurship & Technology minor is designed to provide students with a strong understanding of technology-enabled entrepreneurship along with relevant theory, practices, and applications in the modern innovation-driven world. The E&T Minor will appeal to creative and ambitious students who envision launching startups, managing their own business, or entering careers in technology-enabled fields.

The E&T minor can be combined with any major or minor (except the Technology, Innovation, & Supply Chain minor and the Entrepreneurship & Innovation minor).

To assist with your planning and to review course descriptions, click on the course’s title on Rady’s Tentative Schedule of Classes on Rady’s undergraduate webpage.

Important Policies:

  • All courses must be taken for a letter grade and passed with a grade of C- or better. Students must finish the minor with an overall minor GPA of 2.0 or higher.
  • Students may overlap 8 upper division units between their major and minor. There is no restriction for overlapping lower-division units.
  • Upper-division courses are not permitted to overlap between minors. Only lower-division courses are permitted to overlap.
  • A minimum of 5 courses for the E&T minor must be taken at UC San Diego.

Declaring the Minor

The Entrepreneurship & Technology minor is open to registered UC San Diego students pursuing a bachelor's degree, except students pursuing a minor in Business or Entrepreneurship & Innovation. There is no separate admissions process. We encourage students to declare the minor as soon as possible, to ensure you are meeting all program requirements. In addition, Rady sends important information regarding class offerings and policy changes to our minor students through our minor list.

You may declare a minor through Tritonlink by using the Major/ Minor Tool. For more information on how to declare, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page.

Minor Requirements

*Click here for a printable E&T minor Course Planning Checklist.

REQUIRED CORE: 3 COURSES (12 UNITS)

COURSE # COURSE TITLE  PRE-REQUISITES
MGT-121A Innovation to Market A None
MGT-127R AI and Technology None
MGT-187 New Venture Finance None

The Entrepreneurship & Technology minor requires four electives (16 units total). A minimum of three courses must come from the Primary Electives list. The remaining elective can come from either the Primary Electives list or the Breadth Elective list.

PRIMARY ELECTIVES: CHOOSE 3 COURSES MINIMUM (12 UNITS)

COURSE # COURSE TITLE  PRE-REQUISITES

MGT-071/R

Operating a Successful Business

None

MGT-100

Customer Analytics

ECON-120A or BENG-100 or COGS-014B or ECE-109 or MAE-108 or MATH-011 or MATH-180A or MATH-183 or MATH-186 or MGT-003 or PSYC-060 or SIO-187. 

ECON 120A recommended

MGT-102

 E-Commerce

None

MGT-103

Product Promotion and Brand Management

None

MGT-121B

Innovation to Market B

MGT-121A and MGT-181 (or MGT-187)

MGT-123

Business of Healthcare and Life Sciences

None

MGT-128R

Business Innovation and Growth

None

MGT-129

Topics in Entrepreneurship

None

MGT-153

Information Technology in Business Analytics

Math AND Statistics

MATH:

MATH-010A or MATH-018 or MATH-020A or MATH-031AH

AND

STATISTICS: 

BENG-100 or BIEB-100 or COGS-014B or ECE-109 or ECON-120A or MAE-108 or MATH-011 or MATH-180A or MATH-181A or MATH-183 or MATH-186 or MGT-003 or PSYC-060 or SIO-187

MGT-155

Advanced Business Analytics

MGT-151A or MGT-151R or MGT-153

MGT-164

Business and Organizational Leadership

None

MGT-167

Social Entrepreneurship

None

MGT-171/R

Operations Management

None

MGT-172/R

Business Project Management

None

MGT-179

Topics in Innovation, Technology, and Operations

None

 

BREADTH ELECTIVE: CHOOSE 1 COURSE MAXIMUM (4 UNITS)

COURSE # COURSE TITLE  PRE-REQUISITES
MGT-104 Strategic Customer Insight MGT-100 or MGT-103

MGT-100: ECON-120A or BENG-100 or COGS-014B or ECE-109 or MAE-108 or MATH-011 or MATH-180A or MATH-183 or MATH-186 or MGT-003 or PSYC-060 or SIO-187. ECON-120A recommended.
MGT-103: None
MGT-107 Consumer Behavior MGT-100 or MGT-103

MGT-100: ECON-120A or BENG-100 or COGS-014B or ECE-109 or MAE-108 or MATH-011 or MATH-180A or MATH-183 or MATH-186 or MGT-003 or PSYC-060 or SIO-187. ECON-120A recommended.
MGT-103: None
MGT-108R Applied Market Research None
MGT-119: Pre-approved Topics Only Topics in Business * May be taken up to three times if the course is a different topic each time it is taken.

Pre-approved Topics Only:
  • Creativity in Individuals, Groups, and Organizations
  • Innovation and Market Disruption
  • Introduction to Strategy and Innovation
  • Leading and Teaming with AI
  • Skills of the Future
  • Startup Nation: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Israel
  • Strategic Communications: Storytelling and Data Presentation
Students must send the Rady School of Management a VAC message to have this course added to their Entrepreneurship & Technology minor on their degree audit.
MGT-151A or MGT-151R Business Analytics Math AND Statistics

MATH:
MATH-010A or MATH-018 or MATH-020A or MATH-031AH

AND

STATISTICS:
BENG-100 or BIEB-100 or COGS-014B or ECE-109 or ECON-120A or MAE-108 or MATH-011 or MATH-180A or MATH-181A or MATH-183 or MATH-186 or MGT-003 or PSYC-060 or SIO-187
MGT-162/R Negotiation None
MGT-166 Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility None
MGT-175 Supply Chain Management None

 

Approved courses from other departments are below.

  • COGS-122 Start-up Studio
  • ENG-100D Design for Development: Sustainable Development Design (Open to All Majors)
  • ENG-202 Enterprise Dynamics (undergraduates may enroll in this course with department and instructor approval)
  • ENG-207 Corporate Entrepreneurship for Global Competitiveness (undergraduates may enroll in this course with department and instructor approval)
  • MAE-154 Product Design and Entrepreneurship
  • CSE-190 Successful Entrepreneurship for Microsystems

Partner Programs

The Sullivan Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Rady School of Management was founded to support and catalyze the University of California’s innovation leadership and entrepreneurship initiatives.

Under the direction of Tim Schwartz, the Sullivan Center has grown to include the StartR accelerator programs, Triton Innovation Challenge, and Rady Venture Fund. All of these programs, combined with the many other unique learning opportunities of the Rady School, provide students with the opportunity to explore the many sides of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Triton Innovation Challenge

The Triton Innovation Challenge is a business competition focused on fostering creativity and bringing to the spotlight commercially promising, environmentally focused technologies generated by the finest minds at UC San Diego. Supported through the generosity of The William and Kathryn Scripps Family Foundation Inc., the program is presented through a partnership of the Rady School of Management, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the Jacobs School of Engineering. The competition awards cash prizes totaling $20,000 to support new and innovative ideas that relate to the environment (comes from, inspired by, or directly impacts nature.) 

The Basement

The Basement’s student-centric mission is to stimulate, encourage and serve the entrepreneurial spirit of UC San Diego students by providing a co-work and incubation space. As a shared campus-wide enterprise managed by Alumni and Community Engagement, The Basement is part of a collective comprised of campus partners, alumni leaders, Alumni and Community Engagement and Career and Professional Development staff. 

Learn more about The Basement Incubator Program at ucsdbasement.com or contact: thebasement@ucsd.edu.

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