ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES PROGRAM THAT ENCOURAGES ETHICS, LEADERSHIP, AND ACHIEVEMENT IN THE GLOBAL TECHNOLOGICAL

University was made clear in a report on the future of SouthWest Oklahoma. While the area is above the state average in terms of the percentage of college graduates over the age of 25, it lagged the state in terms of those with graduate degrees. The program is fully on-line as the university has as its focus with the University of Oklahoma system as working with military students from around the world. The state Board of Regents had also had an unpleasant experience with undergraduate entrepreneurship at another state university and therefore they were unlikely to allow a new undergraduate degree to be created. The MS rather than MBA route was chosen as no other university in the state offered an MS in Entrepreneurial Studies and therefore were less likely to challenge it as being a duplication of efforts. Program description – The MSE program is designed around the Small Business Institute ® model and uses this model as the basis for the course work.. The three core faculty for the program have worked on more than 85 successful new business start-ups with student clients and have over a 90 % three-year success rate for new businesses ventures. Two have run multi million dollar businesses in the U.S. and China in which they were co-founders. In 2005 the program was rated in the top 10 in the nation for Limited Curriculum programs by Entrepreneur, their SIFE team won $23,000 in the first annual Governor's Business Plan competition, and one of their projects received a $1000 prize from the Oklahoma Energy Board. Jointly with th