Silicon Valley's Cogswell College Now Offers Uniquely Immersive Masters Degree in “Entrepreneurship & Innovation”

Cogswell College now offers a Masters Degree in Entrepreneurship & Innovation Online Starting Jan 20, 2015 (Graphic: Business Wire)

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--()--Cogswell College, a leading educational institution based in the heart of Silicon Valley offering a unique, project-based curriculum fusing Digital Art, Engineering and Entrepreneurship, has revitalized the school’s Masters Degree program in Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Concurrently, noted entrepreneur Shawn Sadowski has been named Cogswell’s “Entrepreneur in Residence,” after Sadowski worked closely with the Cogswell faculty on the Masters program, set to be launched online January 20, 2015. The announcements were made today by Dr. Deborah Snyder, President and Chief Academic Officer of the school. Please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0qTNwxaAfo

Cogswell is one of only a handful of colleges and universities in the U.S. offering an advanced degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. With the addition of Sadowski to the school’s faculty roster, Cogswell becomes uniquely positioned to provide an immersive learning experience, by capitalizing on his years of start-up experience and insight from having interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs across the United States.

Enrollment in Cogswell’s Masters Degree program in Entrepreneurship & Innovation will be limited to a cohort of 25 students for the Spring 2015 semester, beginning January 20. Interested prospective students should call (855) 361-5930 or visit http://www.cogswell.edu/entrepreneurship/masters.html to apply, while space is still available.

Sadowski made national headlines during the summer of 2014, when he and two colleagues rode bicycles from the west coast of Oregon to the east coast of Virginia to meet with and document the stories of 100 entrepreneurs in 100 different U.S. cities.

Said Dr. Snyder, “The Cogswell Master’s Degree program in Entrepreneurship & Innovation is a truly unique and highly interactive one. The program offers students the opportunity to learn and practice concepts necessary to helping them accomplish their career dreams. It provides additional tools to the graduate’s professional tool kit. Our curriculum is designed to motivate students to go out into the ‘field,’ meet and interview entrepreneurs from a variety of fields, and discover how entrepreneurs ‘do what they do’ to make companies successful. Ours is a soup-to-nuts program, one that is certain to help our students plot the course to their own career destinies.”

Shawn Sadowski is the co-founder and CEO of My New Enterprise. He has extensive experience as a successful entrepreneur and business consultant, and during the Summer of 2014, embarked on the adventure of a lifetime, as he and two colleagues traveled by bike from the west coast of Oregon to the east coast of Virginia to interview successful entrepreneurs across the country. The trio passed through 100 cities, interviewing 100 entrepreneurs to film and document their stories.

Designed as a “fiercely collaborative, living laboratory,” Cogswell College is located in the heart of the legendary Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, California. The school is a WASC accredited, four-year institution of higher education with a specialized curriculum that fuses digital arts, audio technology, game design, engineering and entrepreneurship. Cogswell alumni have established careers with such high profile companies as Activision, DreamWorks Animation, Disney, Electronic Arts, Pixar, and Microsoft Game Studio. For more information, please call 1-800-264-7955 or visit: http://www.cogswell.edu/

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Cogswell College in Silicon Valley Now Offers Online Masters Degree Program in Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Contacts

for Cogswell College
The Asbury PR Agency
Dan Harary, 310-859-1831
dan@asburypr.com