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The Digital Innovation Fellows (DIF) program is offered jointly by the Department of Emerging Technology in Business + Design and the Entrepreneurship Department.  The program is designed to be accomplished within three years, and it offers a unique degree with a major in Emerging Technology and a minor in Entrepreneurship.

Participants spend three semesters living, working, and playing in centers of digital innovation in Cincinnati and San Francisco, mentored by ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú faculty and industry partners.

• Year One. DIF students spend their first year on the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú campus, enrolled in course sections tailored for DIF while participating in an array of special programming.  Students enroll the following summer to prepare for their first semester away from Oxford.
• Year Two. Students are based at our Digital Innovation Centers in Cincinnati. For five days a week, each student works at one of the many dynamic startups who have partnered with the program. Principals of those organizations provide personal coaching.
• Year Three. DIF students spend the fall semester at our Digital Innovation Center in San Francisco and then a final semester on the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú campus preparing their thesis.

Why apply for this program?

• Students graduate one year early with a dual degree: a major in Emerging Technology and a co-major Entrepreneurship. Obviously this allows for earlier entry into the workforce.
• Students graduate with nearly two years' of work experience.
• Even with travel and housing, the three-year duration means that the total cost of the degree will be less than a four-year degree on the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú campus.  This does not include compensation a student may receive from a paid internship (most students acquire paid internships).