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Entrepreneurship & Innovation Minor (M077)

The Rady School of Management’s Entrepreneurship & Innovation minor is designed to provide students with a strong understanding of business and entrepreneurship theory, practices, and applications. The E&I minor appeals to creative and ambitious undergraduate students who envision launching and managing their own business or entering careers in innovation-driven fields. 

The E&I minor can be combined with any minor (except the Business minor) or major.

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.
  • A minimum of 5 courses for the E&I minor must be taken at UC San Diego.

Declaring the Minor

The Entrepreneurship & Innovation minor is open to registered UC San Diego students pursuing a bachelor's degree, except students pursuing a minor in Business. 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

REQUIRED CORE: 3 COURSES (12 UNITS)

COURSE # COURSE TITLE  PRE-REQUISITES
MGT 16
OR
MGT 166		 Personal Ethics at Work
OR
Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility		 None
MGT 103 Product Marketing and Management None
MGT 187 New Venture Finance None

 

PRACTICUM REQUIREMENTS: 2 COURSES (8 UNITS)

COURSE # COURSE TITLE  PRE-REQUISITES
MGT 121A Innovation to Market A None
MGT 121B Innovation to Market B MGT 187 AND MGT 121A

 

ELECTIVES: CHOOSE 2 COURSES (8 UNITS)

COURSE # COURSE TITLE  PRE-REQUISITES
MGT 102 E-Commerce *check if offered
MGT 105 Product Promotion and Brand Management MGT 100 or MGT 103

MGT 100: ECON 120A or BENG 100 or COGS 14B or ECE 109 or MAE 108 or MATH 11 or MATH 180A or MATH 183 or MATH 186 or MGT 3 or PSYC 60 or SIO 187. ECON 120A recommended.

MGT 103: None
MGT 106 Sales and Sales Management MGT 100 or MGT 103

MGT 100: ECON 120A or BENG 100 or COGS 14B or ECE 109 or MAE 108 or MATH 11 or MATH 180A or MATH 183 or MATH 186 or MGT 3 or PSYC 60 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 14B or ECE 109 or MAE 108 or MATH 11 or MATH 180A or MATH 183 or MATH 186 or MGT 3 or PSYC 60 or SIO 187. ECON 120A recommended.

MGT 103: None
MGT 108/R Applied Market Research None
MGT 109:
Preapproved Topics Only		 Topics in Marketing MGT 100 or MGT 103

* May be taken up to three times if the course is a different topic each time it is taken.

Pre-approved Topics Only:
  • Strategic Customer Insight
Students must send the Rady School of Management a VAC message to have this course added to their minor on their degree audit.

MGT 100: ECON 120A or BENG 100 or COGS 14B or ECE 109 or MAE 108 or MATH 11 or MATH 180A or MATH 183 or MATH 186 or MGT 3 or PSYC 60 or SIO 187. ECON 120A recommended

MGT 103: None
MGT 117 Business Law *check if offered
MGT 119:
Preapproved 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
  • Leading and Teaming with AI
  • Skills of the Future
  • Startup Nation: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Israel
  • Strategic Communications: Storytelling and Data Presentation
  • Data Analytics for Event Management (only if taken in Spring 2025)

Students must send the Rady School of Management a VAC message to have this course added to their minor on their degree audit.
MGT 127R AI & Technology Strategy None
MGT 128/R Business Innovation and Growth None
MGT 162/R Negotiation None
MGT 164 Business and Organizational Leadership None
MGT 167 Social Entrepreneurship None
MGT 175 Supply Chain Management None

 

Approved courses from other departments are below.

  • COGS 122 Start-up Studio
  • ENG 100B Engineering Leadership (2 Unit)
  • ENG 100D Design for Development: Sustainable Development Design (Open to All Majors)
  • ENG 100L Design for Development Lab (2 Unit, 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
  • BISP 194 Intro to Biotech Business (2 Unit, only Biotech Business topic counts for E&I credit)
    • Students must send the Rady School of Management a VAC message to have this course added to their minor on their degree audit.
  • SOCI 148E Inequality and Jobs
  • TDGE 3 Cultivating the Creative Mind

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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