Students who have an interest in becoming entrepreneurs or participating in the launch of a new product or service can minor in entrepreneurship by taking 18 semester hours of courses from the management, marketing, and finance departments. This minor helps students develop the following:

  • research skills to identify entrepreneurial opportunities for small business startups
  • the ability to integrate knowledge from the various business disciplines as they apply to small business management
  • an understanding of financial decision making as it applies to entrepreneurship ventures
  • the ability to critically analyze competitive strategy

The entrepreneurship minor includes the following courses:

Required Courses18
FIN 301
PRINCIPLES OF FINANCE
MGT 301
MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS
MGT 405
NEW VENTURE STRATEGIES
MKT 301
PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING
MKT 350
MARKETING EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
MKT 465
NEW VENTURES CHALLENGE
Total Semester Hours18