Other Academic Offerings at Duke

This one-year LLMLE program fuses law, business, and innovation to build knowledge crucial to entrepreneurial ventures.  The program integrates rigorous coursework, real-world experience, and high-level networking opportunities to position students to advise, create, and lead the innovative ventures that will drive tomorrow’s global economy.

The MEM program is a one-year master’s degree program that prepares engineering and science graduates to become future industry leaders. Students take a core curriculum consisting of marketing, finance, intellectual property and business law, and management, and can select several elective courses in innovation and entrepreneurship.

The MMS program is one-year, pre-experience master’s degree program for recent graduates of all academic majors. In an innovative an entrepreneurial environment, students learn the concepts from all the functional areas of business—strategy, decision analysis, management, accounting, marketing, operations, economics, and finance— and apply them to real-world situations.

Daytime MBA students may choose to pursue a Concentration in Social Entrepreneurship, wherein those who desire to apply their entrepreneurial spirit of social impact to become social sector leaders learn the skills necessary to recognize the unique challenges, opportunities, and qualities associated with trying to create social value.

Daytime MBA students may choose to pursue a Concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, wherein they learn to chart an entrepreneurial path by acquiring the skills needed to identify and assess potential opportunities and environments; obtain and protect key resources necessary to pursue these opportunities; develop strategies to generate market interest; and manage organizational operations, transitions, and growth.

The Nicholas Environmental Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate seeks to teach students to develop, evaluate, refine and launch a new sustainable product or service, using both experiential and traditional teaching approaches. Students learn to focus upon valuable, practical ideas, to directly interact with end-users or potential customers, and then to ultimately act in order to implement these ideas.

The Center of Nursing Collaboration, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (CONCEPT) fosters creative, relevant and robust innovation at the Duke University School of Nursing. The objective is to move great ideas from the bench to the bedside, and from the classroom into the national conversation.

P4E assists entrepreneurs in launching new businesses and social ventures. Through team-based courses and access to a broad community of practitioners with whom to work, entrepreneurs learn about, and work towards, defining, planning, establishing, and financing new ventures.

Duke in Chicago is a six-week, two-course-credit program in Chicago for undergraduate entrepreneurs who love the arts and for artists who want to become entrepreneurial. Through meetings, internships, mentorships, and site visits with prominent individuals in arts-related fields, students will gain valuable knowledge of how arts entrepreneurs have shaped the development of Chicago’s unique theater, music, dance, visual arts, and comedy scene.

Duke in Silicon Valley is a comprehensive four-week, one-course-credit program in northern California’s Silicon Valley for undergraduates with an interest in entrepreneurship. The program is designed to give students an intensive experience in the creation of new ventures, both commercial and social, through coursework, site visits, meetings, and exposure to the heart of the nation’s hub for innovative enterprise.