Oneday Entrepreneurial MBA

The world's only program where you can get a fully accredited MBA by launching your own business.

How does the program work

Through a unique collaboration with William Jewell College* and Oneday, you can launch your business and earn an MBA! You will partner 1-1 with a renowned entrepreneur and work hand-in-hand with them to build your business.

Each experiment and task you complete that's issued by your mentor comes with credits toward your MBA degree. Once you have completed a certain number of experiments across a variety of disciplines (product, marketing and finance), you will earn your whole MBA degree.

  1. Submit your application
  2. Have a call with a mentor
  3. Upon decision you are accepted and ready to start! New cohorts start each month.

Read more about program accreditation. 

*The program is not currently eligible for federal student aid.

Goals for Student Learning

One can't become an entrepreneur just by reading books. Entrepreneurship involves understanding market demands, developing a viable business model, securing funding, building a team and much more. Understanding that textual knowledge and theories are insufficient to equip aspiring entrepreneurs in the entrepreneurial world, Oneday pushes a different approach. This program allows students to earn an MBA degree by building their businesses. 

With more than 500 alumni, the MBA program for entrepreneurs has built a portfolio of student stories—mere ideas turned into thriving companies, and fears and uncertainties transmuted into empowered and confident entrepreneurs and leaders today.

“My background is not tech, and my product is a tech product, so I needed help. Oneday mentor Steph Hamill was brilliant. The process at Oneday is very strong, particularly the practical tools. Those were the bits I really needed. I've raised $2.5 million in funding and made it to App of the Day in the app store.”

Neil Smith, Oneday alumnus and co-founder of Mettle

Oneday alumni success stories

Watch these Oneday MBA reviews and hear their firsthand experiences of launching a business. Here are a few featured interviews.

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Jamie Woolnough

Co-founder of Meaningful Planet, an eco-impact business

"I've built businesses before, but Oneday took me back to the basics of starting a business, and I got a degree at the same time. I also met other people who can challenge your ideas and what you're thinking and move you forward."

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Maria Lomas

Founder of Santa Lomas jewelry

"From starting from scratch to signing contracts with retailers worldwide... I wouldn't be where I am today without Oneday. I knew I needed help with strategy, organization, business and finance. I knew the old-fashioned MBA wouldn't work for me."

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Neil Smith

Co-founder of Mettle, a mental fitness app for men

"I had run a number of businesses, but this was my first time as an entrepreneur. I joined Oneday because I needed help in the tech arena and following that process of going from an idea to a reality. And the mentoring support [lets you] speak to somebody with experience who can help you overcome your obstacles."

Core Principles of the EMBA

 

  • Radical personalization

    We believe that learning should start from the interests and passions of the individual. Oneday's program begins with an assessment of each founder's skills, passions and uniqueness. From this we build on experience around the individual: assigning precisely the right mentor, handpicking a cohort of same-stage peers and providing intensive 1:1 and small group work every week.

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  • Learning through doing

    We believe that learning happens best when the information is required to perform a task. Oneday's assignments and assessments are deeply practical in nature, never tokenistic. They form part of a meticulously structured methodology designed to enhance each founder's chances of success. We will never ask founders to learn for learning's sake.

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  • An obsession with outcomes

    We believe that the progress of each individual's business is more important that strict academic success. The entire program is geared toward identifying the earliest signs of traction, growth and product/market fit. Your achievement as a founder is Oneday's obsession.

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Benefits of the Oneday Entrepreneurial MBA

Partner with the world's best founders and learn to launch lean and fast

  • Start Small

    Test demand for your idea by starting with a range of different prototypes. No need to invest large amounts of money with designers, developers or manufacturers. 

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  • Iterate rapidly

    Using feedback and data on your idea from customers, iterate on the proposition rapidly in two-week springs to land on a version that customers are ecstatic about.

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  • Gradually increase fidelity of your prototypes

    As you get more and more validation from customers, increase the fidelity and quality of your prototypes, keeping risk of default to a minimum.

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