I invite you to navigate our site where you will learn more about us - our programs of study, and our commitment to the only people capable of creating appropriate, rapid and sustainable economic growth - the entrepreneurs and entreprenologists of the world.

I have often been asked why we have no central or primary campus - no ivy covered walls framing traditional brick and mortar monuments to hail the virtues of higher education.  Did you know that we also do not have highly paid, full-time and tenured faculty.  Why?  Because the world is our campus and because, like life itself, education cannot be static if the goal is for your programs to remain viable.

Education must be dynamic and the venues for education must be flexible, convenient and compatible with the task at hand - that of providing for a meaningful exchange of ideas, knowledge and experience.  To remain viable, education must address and reflect the change that occurs constantly in the real world.  In other words, to be effective, education and training must be proactive rather than reactive.

Since the early 1950s, the changes that drive the need for the creation of new knowledge have been grudgingly addressed by our traditional education system here in the United States.  With the speed at which things change today, we no longer have the luxury of being able to wait for a few years until the dust settles before trying to decide how to address what is taking place.  Time is one of the most often squandered and arguable the most important non-renewable resource we have.

Someone once said that the definition of insanity was doing things as we have always done them with the expectation that somehow the results will be different.  Change is the only constant in the universe we are forced to deal with on a daily basis.  We are therefore bound to adapt rapidly to change if we are to keep pace with it at all

Since the founding of the IUE in 1972, we have worked to keep up with the change that has swept the world and revolutionized the way we live our lives today.  What has not changed, however, is the way that the countless campus-bound institutions of higher learning offer and provide their services today.  Why?  Because they have no mandate to change.  Each college and university in the United States offers what I call vanilla programs.  What I mean is this; the programs offered by Harvard or MIT or any number of world known universities, are essentially the same as the programs offered by the lesser known schools, colleges and universities that exist in every one of our 50 states.  The primary difference is the price of the programs; tuition varies from institution to institution from expensive to excessive.  And what do you get for your money?  If you earn a degree from one of our better known institutions, you have essentially bought and paid for certain bragging rights.  Can you realistically expect to get a more sizable paycheck if and when you go to work.  Yes.  But you will still be an employee.  Quite honestly, if you are simply looking for a degree rather than an education, the only valid question you have to ask yourself is "How much do I want to invest in that degree?"

With the homogenization of higher education, traditional schools provide a very consistent product - a never ending supply of well rounded employees.  Even MBAs and PhDs are little more than employees populating middle management while commanding higher salaries.

Because we will always need good employees, I believe that a traditional education is of value.  The thing we need far more than an increasing number of employees, however, is the one thing that our traditional institutions - including Harvard, MIT, Yale and Stanford - do not produce.  We need more people who can think and act like entrepreneurs and entreprenologists.  We need a growing number of appropriately educated people who can think and act as employers.

For 50 years, we have dedicated ourselves to developing the kinds of programs needed to address the "too many people think and act like employees and not enough can think and act like employers"  syndrome. The IUE is unique because it is focused on educating and training entrepreneurs and entreprenologists.  In short, we produce employers - men and women who create the jobs that will one day employ the graduates of all the other schools, colleges and universities.

As you look around for an appropriate place to begin, to continue or to complete your education, you must understand that you have options.  You can choose a static tradition based program where you will:

-   spend your time memorizing facts, details information that is already known - second-hand knowledge,

-   be instructed by a research oriented, tenured professor who, in all likelihood, has never spent a great deal of time doing anything outside of academe, and

-   spend several months and/or years doing what could be completed in a fraction of the time at a substantially reduced cost.

On the other hand, you can choose a dynamic needs based program and perhaps find yourself participating in the creation of new answers and new knowledge with the able assistance and encouragement of an instructor who, perhaps only a few hours prior to class time, was busy working in the very things you are discussing at that moment.  The choice is yours.

Yes, the world is our campus, and you will find us exactly where we should be - on location getting at the very heart of the subject rather than paying an expert in research to discuss the history of the subject matter at a leisurely pace in the solitude of a classroom located in a building with ivy covered walls nestled among the trees and bushes of a picturesque campus.  Let me ask you this?  If you needed to learn more about setting up distribution of your product or service in China, would you be better off sitting in a classroom on a prestigious campus in say ... Boston, Massachusetts, or would it make more sense to be participating in a facilitated discussion in Shanghai, China with a number of indigenous distribution experts explaining the intricacies of local, regional and national product and services distribution?

Our campus is without borders and - this is something else you should know - we encourage daydreaming, because what we dream we will one day accomplish.  Learning is a life-long experience and does not end with the granting of a piece of parchment bearing a university seal, some very nice words and the signatures of one or two administrators.  The IUE was established to become exactly what it is - a global resource offering programs focusing on entrepreneurship and entreprenology - the discipline of appropriate growth and development … the discipline of the employer.

We hope that you will explore our site and that you will discover for yourself why we are unique among all institutions of higher learning today.

Sincerely,