Entrepreneurship University of Amsterdam

Overview

Gain practically relevant knowledge, boost your entrepreneurial skills and attitude and get ready for your career as employee or entrepreneur.

Learn to put your knowledge into practice

Get challenged by using your knowledge in a practically relevant way: validate your own business ideas, solve real-life challenges, and do an internship. 

Increase your network

Benefit from an international student body and the networks of two universities within the vibrant Amsterdam start-up ecosystem and corporate world.

Learn from interesting guest speakers

We bring the outside world into the classroom by inviting interesting guest speakers from both start-ups/scale-ups as well as corporates.

Online education complimenting offline

You will enjoy mastering knowledge at the highest level through our blended learning teaching method.

Becoming more entrepreneurial

Studying our Master Entrepreneurship does not per definition make you an entrepreneur. But it does help you to think like one. This will greatly benefit your career as either an employee of a start-up, scale-up or corporate organisation, or as entrepreneur.

Career prospects

The Entrepreneurship programme of the University of Amsterdam will train you for a career in which you will assess and bring to life innovative, viable, high-quality business ideas in a number of contexts.

Our alumni have started careers either as entrepreneur, or as employee at a start-up, scale-up, or existing (large) organisation, and in a diversity of industries. The joint degree Master of Science in Entrepreneurship is recognised internationally.

This programme is suitable for all students who think they may (one day) want to be:

• founder of their own venture;

• manager aiming to create an entrepreneurial culture;

• manager aiming to boost innovation;

• policymaker aiming to create conditions to stimulate entrepreneurship;

• project leader in innovation projects.