The world of technology, especially information and communications technology (ICT), is inducing sweeping changes in how people live, work, communicate, and entertain themselves. These changes create exciting new opportunities for aspiring young tech startup co-founders.
The BS in Information Technology Entrepreneurship, or the ITE program, is designed to create a structured yet vibrant environment for students to become the next generation of high-impact tech startup co-founders
ITE:RATE - Information Technology Entrepreneurship: Research, Application, Transformation, and Entrepreneurship - is ITE’s forward-thinking framework that endorses the mindset of iterative and incremental design and development. Through blending rigorous academic research with hands-on application, the ITE program cultivates an environment conducive to continuous improvement and progressive refinement. This transformative approach nurtures entrepreneurial grit, empowering students to adapt, refine, and innovate, ultimately leading them to develop impactful technological solutions in a dynamic digital world. Success is viewed not with the pursuit of correct solutions but as the ability and attitude to embrace failure and vulnerability to improve oneself sustainably.
The program curriculum begins with working on startup ideas driven by real human problems and needs. This is then shortly followed by a strong foundation in IT fundamentals that will enable you to turn your IT-based product idea into a working prototype and adds to this an overlay of management courses and a business incubation program that will help you to bring your product to market. Failures experienced throughout the program are valuable learning moments—equally crucial as successes. Unlike traditional entrepreneurship programs taught through a business and management lens, the ITE program is handled less-structured, more flexible, and dynamic, heavily emphasizing continuous feedback from mentors, customers, and potential investors. Students are encouraged to participate in startup events here and abroad—not necessarily as students but as valuable resources with expertise to share—whether in user experience design, product management, or software development.
Students who complete the program will not be looking for new jobs when they graduate: they will be offering jobs to other young graduates looking to become part of the next-generation business success story.
Required Major Courses
Management Courses
Entrepreneurial Mindset
Applied Statistics
Business Law and Taxation
Creative Thinking and Innovation Management
Philippine Business Environment: Policies and Programs for Enterprise Development
Special Topics in Production and Operations Management: Service Management
Cost Accounting
Entrepreneurial Finance
Marketing Management
Service Management
Strategic Human Resource Management
Strategic Management
Sustainability and Social Responsibility
Labor Law and Social Legislation
International Business and Trade
Leadership and Business Ethics Elective
Marketing Elective
I.T. Courses
The Digital Economy
Introduction to Programming I and II
User Experience Design
Programming Elective
Entrepreneurship Courses
Technology Venture Planning
Technology Venture Laboratory
Technology Venture Startup I and II
Technology Venture Implementation I
The B.S. Information Technology Entrepreneurship program is designed to create a structured and vibrant environment for young, aspiring entrepreneurs who are bold enough to set up their own information technology company. The program has a strong enough information technology base to enable students to appreciate what is possible with current technology and to come up and develop working prototypes of new product ideas. It also has an overlay of business courses that will give students an appreciation of the challenges of business, and an eye to spot market opportunities, so that the products they come up with are not just technically feasible, but economically feasible and commercially viable as well. Integrated into the program is a set of entrepreneurship courses that will guide the students as they turn their business plans into businesses with going concerns.
Program Learning Outcomes
Through the IT Entrepreneurship Program, students will:
Develop a global perspective for use in nation building
Use interdisciplinary, analytical, and sustainable approaches in creating innovative business models
Develop technical proficiency in their areas of business concentration or major
Show an understanding of how to exercise personal moral and ethical standards
Demonstrate an understanding of transformative service leadership principles
Over and above these program outcomes, the IT Entrepreneurship Program has the following Program outcomes.
A graduate of IT Entrepreneurship program should be able to...
Produce Business Models and Business Plans for any IT venture that can scale from local to global markets
Choose the right business and technology partners across geographic boundaries and from different Domains to complement one's own solutions to deliver better market fit.
Combine the appropriate tools, techniques, frameworks, content, and platforms for business, technology, and human-centered design to launch and sustain viable of IT ventures
Manage diverse groups or teams to achieve desired goals within the context of a local or global IT venture
Defend the importance and need for intellectual property for technology-based business proposals
Formulate the right leadership approaches to apply, depending on situations and within the context of IT ventures and operations
