Apr 02, 2025  
2024-2025 Academic Bulletin 
    
2024-2025 Academic Bulletin

Graduate Innovation & Entrepreneurship Certificate


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The Graduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate (I&E Certificate) is a 16-credit sequence to actively lay a foundation, build a core, shape and polish a student’s capacity for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) through engagement in advanced projects and ancillary coursework. It is open to master's level students enrolled on the main campus of Andrews University.

The program requires 10 credits of core courses and is complemented by 6 credits from one of three focus area tracks: Non-Profit Innovation, Humanitarian and Development Innovation, and Product-Market Innovation. Completion involves a capstone course that is a practical implementation of a project or launch of a business, non-profit organization, or ministry. This program is designed to be of special interest to traditional and non-traditional students who have ambitions for establishing a startup company developing or offering an innovative product, process, ministry, organization, or service. 

Total Credits - 16


Required Courses - 10


Focus Area - 6


Students must choose one of the following focus areas:

Humanitarian and Development Innovation


Choose 6 credits from the following courses:

Product-Market Innovation


Choose 6 credits from the following courses:

Student Learning Outcomes


  • Evaluate users’ unmet needs using design thinking methodologies.
  • Develop creative solutions to unmet needs using a customer-centric approach and iterate based on customer discovery and validation data.
  • Implement creative solutions that can have an impact through a business venture, non-profit organization, or ministry.
  • Demonstrate ability to function in an interdisciplinary team by engaging with other students in the Certificate program.
  • Demonstrate competence in engaging diverse perspectives and effective communication when interacting with customers.

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