Many individuals around the globe are interested in pursuing graduate studies in Social Entrepreneurship, both for short-term programs (certificates) and at the M.A. and Ph.D levels. The Global Advances team has compiled a list of programs from around the world that are dedicated to integrating a business education with a social mission. Do you know of any interesting interesting, cutting-edge, innovative programs that are inspiring social change? We would love for you to share and contribute to this on-going list in the comments below!

Programs by Country:

• United States
• Canada
• United Kingdom
• South Africa
• Belgium
• France
• New Zealand
• Japan
• Philippines
• India
• Taiwan

UNITED STATES

Stanford University, California, The Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIE) Program
The Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIE) Program brings together faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students from across Stanford to develop innovative, technology-based solutions with a potential for social benefit.
http://sie.stanford.edu/

Harvard Business School, Boston, MA in Social Enterprise
Grounded in Harvard Business School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, the Social Enterprise Initiative aims to inspire, educate, and support current and emerging leaders in all sectors to apply management skills to create social value.
http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/

NYU, The Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship
This program is designed to attract, encourage and train a new generation of leaders in public service. Each year, the program will expose a highly selective group of graduate and undergraduate students from throughout New York University to the cross-disciplinary skills, experiences and networking opportunities needed to advance and support their efforts to realize sustainable and scalable pattern-breaking solutions to society’s most intractable problems.
http://www.nyu.edu/reynolds/

Columbia Business School, New York, Social Enterprise Program
The Social Enterprise Program (SEP) at Columbia Business School provides a framework for students to think in broader terms about their role in business and society, and prepares them with the knowledge and experience to respond to the challenges of a rapidly changing world.
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise

Ariane de Rothschild Fellows Program: Dialogue & Social Entrepreneurship (Two-week program, New York City in July 2009)
The Ariane de Rothschild Fellows Program: Dialogue & Social Entrepreneurship aims to develop a network of social entrepreneurs with an interest in fostering a culture of mutual respect and dialogue among Jewish and Muslim communities. http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/execed/programs/detail/28660/Ariane+de+Rothschild+Fellows+Program%3A++Dialogue+%26+Social+Entrepreneurship

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Chicago: MBA in Social Enterprise (SEEK) program
Kellogg created the SEEK program in 2005 to provide a rigorous, relevant experience for students interested in the intersection between management and society across all organizations and industries. SEEK is focused on building leadership skills and awareness to help Kellogg graduates be socially responsible global leaders. http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/academic/seek/program/index.htm

Yale School of Management, Connecticut, Program on Social Enterprise
The Program on Social Enterprise at the Yale School of Management (PSE) supports scholars, students, and alumni interested in the connections between society and business. PSE facilitates work on nonprofit and public organizations as well as initiatives in the area of corporate social responsibility. http://pse.som.yale.edu/index.html

Yale University, Connecticut, Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS)
The Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) strives to facilitate interdisciplinary inquiry in the social sciences and research into important public policy arenas. Recognizing that important social problems cannot be studied adequately by a single discipline, the Yale Corporation established the Institution for Social and Policy Studies in 1968 in order to stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration within the university. http://www.yale.edu/isps/

Seattle University, Master’s of Nonprofit Leadership
The MNPL program is oriented toward working professionals who currently are nonprofit executives or who expect to be in such positions within three years of completing the program.
http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/npl/

Colorado State University: The Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise (GSSE) Program
The GSSE Program seeks to provide sustainable enterprise solutions to some of the most stubborn issues of our time including poverty, disease, malnutrition and environmental degradation. We do that by graduating students with the appropriate training, experience and character necessary to create and operate for-profit and nonprofit startups, nongovernmental organizations, and to work in multinational companies that champion social and environmental objectives while delivering solid returns on investment.
http://www.biz.colostate.edu/gsse/pages/default.aspx

University of Maine Farmington, Social Enterprise/Entrepreneurship major
The Social Enterprise/Entrepreneurship major at Farmington offers four Social Sector Concentrations: Globalization and Economic Development, Environmental Conservation, Democratization and Governance
Poverty.
http://www.farmington.edu/majors/socialent.php

DePaul University College of Commerce, Social Enterprise Projects
The DePaul Students for Social Enterprise (DSSE) is a group of committed and driven DePaul student that have come together for the purpose of educating themselves and others on social justice, entrepreneurship and innovation. It is through proactive involvement in a wide range of local, national and international issues that DSSE members will network with other professionals in the field, develop strategies to grow the triple bottom line of any firm, and conceptualize and launch new firms onto the global stage.
http://commerce.depaul.edu/ethics/DSSE/index.asp

Seattle Pacific University, Undergraduate/ Graduate Program in Social Enterprise
Co-conveners of this program include AACSB, the Aspen Institute, EABIS, and the United Nations Global Compact. AACSB accredited institutions who are willing to integrate corporate responsibility and sustainability in a systemic manner throughout their programs are invited to join.
http://www.spu.edu/depts/sbe/se/index.asp

CANADA

The Centre for Social Innovation, Downtown Toronto
The CSI seeks to embrace a responsibility to grow a positive, diverse and vibrant community of individuals and organizations. Applicants for permanent and part-time work in the centre must complete an application form that helps us understand how your work is socially, economically, culturally or environmentally meaningful.
http://www.socialinnovation.ca/

University of Alberta, Canadian Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
The CCSE has three streams of programming in Resource, Education and Research. The streams are mutually reinforcing as research supports our education component and this allows us to interact with the community with credibility on the subject of social entrepreneurship.
http://www.business.ualberta.ca/CCSE/

UNITED KINGDOM

School for Social Entrepreneurs
The School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) exists to provide training and opportunities to enable people to use their creative and entrepreneurial abilities more fully for social benefit. We also want to recruit more innovative and capable people into voluntary and other organisations. The SSE runs practical learning programmes aimed at helping develop the individual entrepreneur and their organisation simultaneously: our approach, and belief, is that social change is people-powered, and that the most valuable assets and resources we have are human ones.
http://www.sse.org.uk/

Oxford Said Business School, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
This program offers students the opportunity to study three leading edge social entrepreneurship electives. The first explores the nature and range of social entrepreneurship in its international context; the second investigates the role of innovation in successful social enterprises; while the third encompasses design and development aspects of social entrepreneurship ventures within their institutional context.
http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/skoll

University of Brighton, UK, Innovative programs: (Business) Social Enterprise
With social enterprise development and support as a key focus for the University of Brighton, we have a committed and experienced team of across the university working with social enterprises, partners and networks both locally, regionally and nationally to develop both sector leaders and sustainable enterprises.
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/business/social_enterprise.php?PageId=60

Liverpool John Moores University, UK, Liverpool Business School, MA in Social Enterprise Management
The three-year MA in Social Enterprise Management has been specifically designed for part time study with all assessments work based. Successful applicants will be taught the techniques of business planning, as well as management functions such as marketing, strategic management, people management, research methods, social auditing and finance all within a social business context. The course will also focus on the development of the social economy.
http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/socialenterprise/index.htm

Heriot-Watt University, UK, Social Enterprise Institute (SEI)
The business of the institute is the provision of research, training, business planning, education and consultancy services for all stakeholders in the social economy.
http://www.sml.hw.ac.uk/socialenterprise/

University of Cambridge, UK, Institute of Continuing Education, and the Judge Business School, The Master of Studies (M.St.) in Social Enterprise and Community Development
The Master of Studies (M.St.) in Social Enterprise and Community Development is a two-year, part-time degree taught and administered by the Institute of Continuing Education and the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.
http://www.cont-ed.cam.ac.uk/courses/mst/community/

University of ULSTER, UK, Advanced Diploma in Social Enterprise
The Advanced Diploma in Social Enterprise provides students with the knowledge and skills to prepare a plan for the establishment of a social enterprise. Students will journey through an exploration of social enterprise, an ideas generation workshop, market awareness, governance, resource planning and social enterprise business planning. This practical course gives students the opportunity to work in a stimulating environment with like- minded individuals.
http://prospectus.ulster.ac.uk/course/?id=6853

SOUTH AFRICA

University of Pretoria Centre for Microfinance
The Centre for Microfinance offers short-term courses that award a Certificate in Individual Microenterprise Lending or a Certificate Programme for Microfinance Management. At the MBA level there’s an Executive Programme for Microfinance Managers. The program’s aim is to improve the general skills and expertise of people working for microfinance institutions and specifically, to improve management capacity of microfinance institutions.
http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=3841

University of Stellenbosch Business School, Master’s Degree in Development Finance
Focusing on development finance and Africa’s growth needs, the internationally accredited Master’s Degree in Development Finance (MDF) is the first programme of its kind in Africa. This unique Master’s programme also ties in with the African Union’s educational objectives.
http://www.usb.sun.ac.za/usb/degrees/MDEVF.asp

BELGIUM

Solvay Business School, European Microfinance Program
A joint program amongst European universities – The European Microfinance Programme delivers a broad program which encompasses: general management, development issues and their link to microfinance, tools for financial analysis, microeconomics, contracting and financial products, macroeconomics and regulation, organizations and markets structures, rural and urban microfinance issues.
www.europeanmicrofinanceprogram.org

FRANCE

INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship
INSEAD has developed a unique social entrepreneurship programme that draws some of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs for an intensive week of the most current, leading-edge management and strategy training specifically tailored to social entrepreneurs. The program is complemented by a diverse assortment of MBA courses focusing on various aspects of social innovation and explore opportunities for collaboration between the private and public sectors and non-governmental organisations.
http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/centres/social_entrepreneurship/index.cfm

NEW ZEALAND

Waikato Management School, New Zealand, Diploma, MA, PHD in Social Enterprise
This Diploma in Social Enterprise and its associated postgraduate qualifications will be of interest to those people and organizations interested in the creation and stewardship of income and wealth and in organizational growth and development for the achievement of social goals, environmental stewardship and peace. We are interested in understanding how better to generate the energies, resources and processes to achieve these broader goals. This qualification allows for progression into the Master of Management Studies and the associated PhD program.
http://wms-soros.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/Social+Enterprise+Studies/default.htm?list=Home

JAPAN

Tokyo Institute of Technology Social Entrepreneurship Program
A new graduate program for Social Entrepreneurship aims at providing students with opportunities to learn a multidisciplinary approach to social problems and to gain practical experience in the field. With the support of vast technological resources of Tokyo Institute of Technology, which is known to have one of the highest academic standards among technical universities in the world, the program will train future Social Entrepreneurs who will be able to solve various social problems by creating sustainable and innovative systems with new ideas, thus making the world a better place.
http://www.soc.titech.ac.jp/major/npm_new/npm_e_080116.htm

PHILIPPINES

Asian Institute of Management, Master in Development Management
The MDM is an 11-month intensive, innovative and practitioner-oriented program designed to prepare development executives and practitioners to manage and lead public and civil society organization, cooperatives and private non-profit firms amidst economic and political transitions. The MDM program is commited to producing visionary and transformational development managers who create public value and maximize the sustainable public good.
http://www.cdm.aim.edu/

INDIA

Institute for Financial Management and Research, Post Graduate Diploma in Management – Development and Sustainable Finance
This program recognizes that it is becoming increasingly clear that financial and economic integration is a necessary step for the swift advancement of development. Financial inclusion and poverty alleviation with a focus on the bottom of the pyramid and the role of corporations and financial institutions in this process of development are a major area of research. This program in development and sustainable finance provides the underlying theoretical frameworks, skills and analytical capabilities for exploring the issues in developmental finance in the context of emerging markets.
http://ifmr.ac.in/html/main.php

TAIWAN

Feng-Chia University (FCU), TAIWAN, Bachelor Program of Nonprofit Management (PNPM), MBA Program for Non-Profit and Co-op Management
Research Institute of Social Enterprise (RISE) is recognized through Taiwanese government as only entry into nonprofit research in middle Taiwan.
http://www.rise.fcu.edu.tw/english.htm

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