Program Overview

The Joint Master in Global Entrepreneurial Management (MGEM), a partnership between three universities, immerses students in cross-cultural aspects of decision making within entrepreneurial firms. This full-time program takes students to Barcelona at IQS School of Management, New Taipei City at Fu Jen Catholic University, and Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University for a semester each, ensuring a deep understanding of business on a global scale. The MGEM program gives students the skills and tools to expand their view and lead with an entrepreneurial mindset. The program serves students from any major interested in learning more about business and entrepreneurship in cross-cultural, global context. Hence, this is an attractive program for students who want to study business and have a global experience.

The MGEM program offers courses that are practitioner-oriented and delivered in a sequence that maximizes the unique locations of the three partner schools in Barcelona, Taipei, and Los Angeles. Unlike other study-abroad programs that offer students the option to travel to another continent for one semester, the MGEM cohort travels to a new continent in each of the three semesters; thus, ensuring a deep understanding of how one conducts business on a global scale.

The three partner universities that jointly offer this graduate degree are: IQS (Instituto Químico de Sarrià) School of Management located in Barcelona, Spain; FuJen University, located in New Taipei City, Taiwan; and the College of Business Administration at Loyola Marymount University. The program begins with a fall semester at IQS, followed by a winter/spring semester at FuJen, and ends with a summer semester at the LMU campus, located in the heart of Los Angeles’ Silicon Beach.

In addition to classroom instruction, students engage with entrepreneurial firms through consulting opportunities in both Europe and the United States. In the classroom, cases and business problems are employed to simulate the tools and skills required to solve real-life problems. In each region, students will visit various entrepreneurial companies.

A unique feature of the MGEM program is the cohort’s structure. Our diverse student body comes from countries located in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. As a result, most MGEM students develop life-long friendships and build a global network composed of their peers, professors, and successful entrepreneurs.

English is the language of instruction for the entire program; therefore, students’ TOEFL or other IELTS test scores must meet the required standards. Courses are taught by leading scholars as well as accomplished practitioners.

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate the competence to operate effectively within a multicultural team and manage a diverse workforce to maximize organizational performance
• Apply the professional and ethical responsibilities and skills of a global manager with an entrepreneurial mindset
• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, using different media and settings
• Demonstrate and apply cross-cultural competence in different managerial and entrepreneurial settings
• Select and analyze financial information to make effective managerial decisions
• Identify information technology trends and developments and utilize those for effective managerial decision-making.

Graduate Program Policies

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Major Requirements

The MGEM curriculum is comprised of 12 courses organized in three sessions. These courses represent 36 credit units in the LMU system, 72 ECTS credits in the IQS system, or 51 credit units in the FJU system. Each institution’s set of units qualifies as the amount of academic work that each of the three national education systems require for a Master’s degree. Specific courses offered and course descriptions are as follows.

The 1st Session (at IQS in Barcelona):

• MGEM 6101 Global Environment and Business Trends 1.5 semester hours
• MGEM 6102 Technology Appreciation and Intellectual Property Management 3 semester hours
• MGEM 6103 Common Ground in Corporate Valuation and Accounting 3 semester hours
• MGEM 6104 Cross-Cultural Management and Ethical Business Practice 3 semester hours
• MGEM 6105 Consulting Projects 1.5 semester hours

The 2nd Session (at FJU in New Taipei City):

• MGEM 6201 Operations Management and Supply Chain Management with a Global Perspective 3 semester hours
• MGEM 6202 Special Topics in Global Entrepreneurship and Management 1.5 semester hours
• MGEM 6203 Corporate Finance with a Global Perspective 3 semester hours
• MGEM 6204 Innovation and Technology Management 3 semester hours
• MGEM 6205 Entry Barriers and Strategic Alliance 1.5 semester hours

The 3rd Session (at LMU in Los Angeles):

• MGEM 6301 Cross-Cultural Marketing and Integrated Marketing Communication 3 semester hours
• MGEM 6302 Business Analytics in the Global Context 3 semester hours
• MGEM 6303 Social Entrepreneurship 1.5 semester hours
• MGEM 6304 Venture Capital, Corporate Entrepreneurship, and Micro Financing 3 semester hours
• MGEM 6305 U.S. Consulting 1.5 semester hours