Innovation and Venture Development, MS

Do you want to create your future? Three schools have partnered to create this program that teaches you everything you need for launching a venture: design, engineering, and business. All undergraduate degrees are welcome. Start your life next fall; do not wait until you graduate.

The MS program in innovation and venture development integrates the most advanced practices and technologies from business, engineering, and design in a transdisciplinary, experience-based program that prepares the next generation of leaders with skills needed for launching successful ventures in any industry or sector, inside existing organizations or as new entities.

Graduates are prepared to lead cross-disciplinary teams in a world of growing uncertainty and ambiguity. They can identify needs, evaluate opportunities, generate insights from real-world problems, innovate solutions, and create and launch scalable business models that provide value to all stakeholders. Founders with this innovation and venture development degree from ASU can define a new standard for venture development.

The Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts is the largest comprehensive design and arts school in the nation, located within a dynamic 21st-century research university.

The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts offers more than 70 graduate degrees and concentrations in our five schools Art, Arts, Media and Engineering, Design, Film, Dance and Theatre and Music. Whether you practice music, architecture, dance, theatre, design, visual art, or film, creative excellence requires both a mastery of your discipline and the development of your creative expression. At ASU's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, you will excel, innovate and thrive.

With 5,000+ students, nearly 400 faculty members, 130 program options, and a tradition of top-ranked programs, we are committed to redefining the 21st-century design and art school. Our college is built on a combination of disciplines unlike any other program in the nation, comprising the Schools of Art; Arts, Media, and Engineering; Music, Dance, and Theatre; The Design School, The New American Film School; and The Arizona State University Art Museum.

Our graduates develop the ability to be generative and enterprising, work collaboratively within and across artistic fields, and generate non-routine solutions to complex problems. With this broad exposure to creative thinking and problem-solving, our graduates are well prepared to lead in every arena of our economy, society, and culture.