A one-year, tech-forward master’s degree for builders, product leaders, and innovators
The Master of Business, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (MBET) program empowers ambitious innovators to transform ideas into ventures, products, and technology-driven innovation inside organizations.
Blending rigorous business education with immersive, hands-on experience in:
- Founding/co-founding new venture creation
- Product management, market validation, and sales
- Implementing AI business applications and digital transformation
Launched in 2002 to support founders building ventures during graduate studies, MBET has evolved into a leading one-year master’s program for innovation and product leadership.
Whether you’re launching your own startup, transitioning into product management, or driving digital transformation within an organization, MBET gives you the tools, mindset, and network to create advantage in a rapidly changing economy.
Students work alongside like-minded peers, mentors, and founders within Canada’s most dynamic startup and technology ecosystem.
Optional Specializations
Optional Graduate Specializations*:
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Product Management and Innovation
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New Venture Creation and Commercialization
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AI and Digital Transformation
(*beginning Fall 2026, pending final university senate approval)
Program Format
The MBET program is offered in two formats:
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Full-Time (Completed in one year)
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Part-Time (Completed in three years, weekends only)
The program is delivered largely in person to ensure deep engagement within Waterloo’s innovation ecosystem. It is immersive, experiential, and like nothing else. There is no fully online option available.
Choose the MBET or add a specialization to tailor your degree to your goals and customize your path.
Lead products from concept to market, build skills in strategy, customer discovery, and innovation management, and graduate with hands-on experience consulting a real product initiative.
Build and scale real ventures, develop an entrepreneurial mindset through opportunity evaluation, business modelling, sales, and commercialization, and graduate having launched your own venture or mentored others.
Drive digital and AI-enabled transformation, learn when and how to adopt technologies that create competitive advantage, and graduate with hands-on experience in AI, tech strategy, and digital innovation.
Is MBET right for you?
The MBET program is designed for bright, ambitious, creative, and curious team players who can demonstrate they have the passion and drive it takes to excel as an entrepreneur.
MBET students come from all academic disciplines, including engineering, business, computer science, maths, science, and the arts. The program provides the perfect platform for innovative thinkers and problem-solvers who want to create impact in their careers and communities.
You have to extract as much value as you can from this program. MBET allows you to reposition yourself more competitively. It allows you to think and grow, to reach the next level of your goals.