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Master of Science in Technology Commercialization (MSTC) - Online

The Master of Science in Technology Commercialization (MSTC) degree is a one-year program that prepares individuals for successful entrepreneurship and for fields such as technology assessment, IP development, technology transfer, product licensing, product line development and management, business development, and strategic planning. The curriculum is about action-based learning. Rather than working on business case studies and hypothetical exercises, students work on real technologies and learn how to assess and calculate the viability of the product, identify the correct market and finally launch the product for profit. The Texas MSTC program is focused on technology commercialization and acquiring the skill set necessary to take a product from lab to market. The program teaches students how to 'bridge the gap' between intellectual property (technology) and the needs of consumers. The Texas MSTC program is designed so that students earn a graduate degree in just one year while continuing to work full-time. Classes meet every-other weekend, on Friday afternoons and Saturdays from 8:00 am to 5:30 pm, for a total of 23 weekends and 3 full weeks. The program begins in May of each year and consists of 36 graduate credits packed into an intensive sequence of 10 three-credit courses. The deadline for complete application submission is February 15. Students can attend classes in Austin, via live video, or do a combination of the two. Students have the option of fully completing the program without ever coming to Austin, because there is no residency requirement for the Texas MSTC program. All classes are webcast live over the Internet, so students participate and ask questions from anywhere in the world that they can access a broadband connection. Our online program is one of the best. Most assignments are done on teams of 4-6 students, and these teams develop and commercialize several new technologies over the course of the year. The program culminates in formal presentations of the student-teams' final technology commercialization plans before a panel of faculty, industry leaders and venture capitalists. A number of the technologies developed in the program have resulted in subsequent commercial ventures for Texas MSTC graduates. Please register to attend an upcoming Information Session.