Program Overview
UC Santa Cruz offers many opportunities to study business and entrepreneurship. The Economics Department offers majors in Business Management Economics, Economics, and Global Economics, as well as an Economics and Mathematics Combined B.A. program. If you are interested in the business of technology, you may want to try the Technology and Information Management program offered by the Jack Baskin School of Engineering.
We also offer an Innovation & Entrepreneurship Certificate Program, in which you’ll learn about finance and investing, building and scaling ventures, operations, marketing, and business pitching. You’ll also get direct client interface in the form of freelancing internships, consulting, or contract work.
Our Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurial Development offers coursework, industry connections, and seed and venture funding support.
- Economics
- Business & Economics
Student Story: Smeet Mehta
Smeet Mehta (philosophy, ‘24) found his love for business and entrepreneurship while he was a student at UC Santa Cruz. Smeet took advantage of every opportunity he could to prepare himself for business, including joining entrepreneurship clubs, taking the pathway in entrepreneurship program in Crown College, representing UCSC at the Venture Capital Investment Competition, and helping to start Slug Tank – UCSC’s student club version of Shark Tank. In 2020, he teamed up with professors and fellow students to launch Get Virtual, a program that supported local organizations in upgrading their websites during the COVID-19 pandemic. And his hard work paid off. Smeet currently works in Mumbai as an analyst at 100x.VC—an early-stage venture capital firm—to help startups get the funding they need to start their journeys.
“UC Santa Cruz taught me to be greedy for opportunity,” Smeet says. “The more greedy I was for opportunity, the more I was in the right place at the right time.”
Career Outcomes
- Accountant
- CEO
- CFO
- COO
- Consultant
- Data Analyst
- Entrepreneur
- Financial Analyst
- IT Business Analyst
- Marketing Manager
- Marketing Analyst
- Network Administrator
- Operations Manager
- Project Manager
- Sales
- Supply Chain Manager
- Systems Administrator
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