Entrepreneurship Degrees
Starting your own business is an attractive prospect to many people. Being your own boss, setting your own hours and implementing your own ideas sounds like a dream job. But with the potential for large returns comes significant risk; many startup businesses don’t make it due to heavy competition or underprepared entrepreneurs. A degree in entrepreneurship can help you assess business prospects, and ensure that you have a sound business plan before you begin a startup. You will learn essential business principles such as accounting, marketing customer service and many other areas in which a successful business must excel.
- Certification: Certifications can be earned at either the undergraduate or graduate level, and will provide an education in a specific area of entrepreneurship. Graduates who complete these certification programs along with the parent degree may go on to start their own business, or work as business consultants.
- Associate’s: This two year degree program will prepare students to create and run a small business. Instruction will include business administration basics including accounting, logistics and human resources.
- Bachelor’s: A four year bachelor’s degree program will take a closer look at what makes a successful business. Students will follow a curriculum that closely follows a business administration degree program, with entrepreneurship-specific courses included.
- Master’s: Higher-level graduate degree programs usually follow completion of a bachelor’s degree program, and include advanced entrepreneurial topics such as business law, product development and advanced marketing.
There is also a practical "science entrepreneurship" degree in a special category of degrees called professional science master's. Learn more about these growing intensive programs here.