• The Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative encourages you to build your graduate degree curriculum based on your unique interests and goals and the requirements of the master’s or doctoral degree program you're pursuing at The New School. These curricular resources are designed to guide and support you as you decide how to incorporate entrepreneurial skill-building and social innovation strategies into your New School education. 

    Signature Courses

    Students in early-stage venture development can apply to register for these courses. The courses support graduate students in building the capacities and networks needed to develop sustainable ventures that address critical societal challenges.

    • Intro to Social Entrepreneurship introduces students to key concepts associated with social entrepreneurship and explores entrepreneurial approaches that address social problems in the United States and abroad.
    • The Venture Lab supports graduate students and upper-level undergraduates in developing financially sustainable ventures with the potential for scalable impact.

    Graduate Minor

    The graduate minor in Impact Entrepreneurship offers students an opportunity to further develop their entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, and mindsets so that they can identify opportunities to create positive social impact in our rapidly changing world.

    Drawing on interdisciplinary courses that engage with their interests, students learn to take a collaborative, design-driven, systems-oriented approach to addressing unmet social needs. They explore potential pathways for scaling wide, to address a large population of people, or scaling deep, to address the causes of problems and strengthen local community relationships. Students develop diverse skills in areas including cross-sector leadership, management, venture development, design research and prototyping, fundraising, finance, marketing, and social responsibility.

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To apply to any of our undergraduate programs (except the Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students and Parsons Associate of Applied Science programs) complete and submit the Common App online.

Undergraduate Adult Learners

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Graduates

To apply to any of our Master's, Doctoral, Professional Studies Diploma, and Graduate Certificate programs, complete and submit the New School Online Application.

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