Entrepreneurship

The entrepreneurship major prepares you to be an innovative leader in startups or established businesses.

Preparing You For Success

Entrepreneurship courses give you practical tools to guide your creativity and innovation in organizational settings. You learn how to start your own venture and help organizations develop products, create markets, and solve problems. In addition, you’re grounded in management, marketing, finance, accounting, business law and management information systems knowledge. You complete the degree with a capstone project for a local business.

By the time you graduate, your experiences may include:

  • Develop an entrepreneurial mindset that will help you discover, evaluate, and pursue opportunities.
  • Develop your professional network with local entrepreneurs, students across majors, faculty, and investors.
  • Pitch new business ideas to successful entrepreneurs, investors and corporate executives
  • Internships in exciting new startups and innovative corporations across multiple industries

Making Your Mark

Entrepreneurship majors are valued in new startups, existing businesses looking for innovative ideas, family businesses, social ventures and nonprofit organizations.

Major Requirements

Required Courses

  • ENT 280: Entrepreneurial Creativity - 3 hrs.
  • ENT 281: The Entrepreneurial Career - 1 hr.
  • ENT 382: Entrepreneurship Startups - 3 hrs.
  • ENT 383: Managing Entrepreneurial Growth - 3 hrs.
  • ENT 384: Entrepreneurial Finance - 3 hrs.
    or ATG 314: Cost Accounting - 3 hrs.
  • ENT 482: Entrepreneurial Experience - 3 hrs.
  • ML 350: Managing for Results in Organizations - 3 hrs.

Elective Courses - 6 hrs.

  • BLW 347: Law and the Entrepreneur - 3 hrs.
  • BLW 360: Business Intellectual Property - 3 hrs.
  • ENT 385: Technology Entrepreneurship - 3 hrs.
  • ENT 386: Social Entrepreneurship - 3 hrs.
  • ENT 387: Family Business - 3 hrs.
  • ENT 289: Topics in Entrepreneurship - 1-3 hrs.
  • ENT 389: Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship - 1-3 hrs.
  • ENT 488: Internship in Entrepreneurship - 1-3 hrs.
  • ENT 499: Independent Study in Entrepreneurship - 1-3 hrs.
  • *SEI 200: Topics in Entrepreneurship and Innovation - 1-3 hrs.
  • *SEI 210: Practicum in Entrepreneurship and Innovation - 1-3 hrs.
  • *SEI 300: Topics in Entrepreneurship and Innovation - 1-3 hrs.
  • *SEI 310: Practicum in Entrepreneurship and Innovation - 1-3 hrs.
  • SEI 330: Technical Creativity and Innovation - 3 hrs.
  • With approval by the ETL Department chair.

*With approval by the ETL Department chair.

Entrepreneurship majors must satisfactorily complete at least 15 hours of courses with BLW, ENT, MIS or ML prefixes at Bradley University. Students should note that some courses are offered only once each year.

Students must also complete Foster College's business core.