Studies

Master's in Entrepreneurship

Become a pioneer in business

Completing our Master's in Entrepreneurship equips students with the mindset and skills to generate new business ideas and turn them into actions, be it in new independent ventures or in existing organisations. Students will also gain experience in managing complex projects and working in teams with colleagues from different backgrounds.

Learn through experience and action

This is the real distinguishing feature of our Master's: our students are in close contact with actual customers, financiers, and other stakeholders throughout their studies and apply the research-based knowledge acquired in lectures right away in the real world of business. Students get to work in teams comprising not only other business students, but also fellow students from design, science and engineering. This makes learning Entrepreneurship at Aalto highly rewarding and creates outstanding networking opportunities for future careers.

Gain a solid foundation for diverse careers

While some of our students do in fact start their own ventures already during the course of their studies, this is by no means the only career option available for our graduates. In fact, Entrepreneurship graduates have excellent qualifications for project management, consultancy or any other business function where a holistic mastery of a larger business entity is called for. They are highly appreciated also as entrepreneurship specialists in the public sector at the regional, national and supra-national (EU, OECD) levels.

Join the network

The Master's in Entrepreneurship is embedded within the broader entrepreneurship ecosystem at Aalto University. Hence, our students have the opportunity to benefit from the courses provided by the Aalto Ventures Program, a university-wide initiative to foster entrepreneurship. They will also have the opportunity to join forces with other entrepreneurially minded students in the Aalto Entrepreneurship Society.

PhD in Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship as a field of research

Entrepreneurship is a multi-faceted and pronouncedly multi-disciplinary field of research for scholars from different backgrounds including but not limited to business studies, economics, finance, education, psychology, sociology and economic geography. Research in entrepreneurship focuses not only on the emergence and development of new firms, but also the people behind these firms, people acting entrepreneurially within existing organisations, and the interaction between entrepreneurship and society. These features make entrepreneurship a particularly fascinating and challenging field of scholarly enquiry, which is open to different theoretical and methodological approaches.

What you will learn and where it can take you

The Aalto doctoral programme with a focus on entrepreneurship provides students with the fundamental skills for conducting research in any field of business and the specific theoretical, methodological and practical skills required of a professional entrepreneurship scholar. In addition to an academic career in a university, the doctoral studies in Entrepreneurship provide a solid foundation for a career, for example, in consultancy, in non-governmental organisations (e.g. Chambers of Commerce, think-tanks, entrepreneurship support initiatives) and in the public sector at regional, national and supra-national (EU, OECD, World Bank) levels where a combination of in-depth subject knowledge of entrepreneurship and a high level of research skills is required.