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.
Course Sequence
Sample program plan information is provided for sample purposes only. Students should consult with their academic advisor about their individual plan for course registration and completion of program requirements.
First Year - Fall Semester (16 hours)
- BUS 100 Contemporary Business — 3
- MTH 114 Applied Finite Math — 3
- Core courses — 6
- EHS 120 University Experience — 1
- ENG 101 English Composition — 3
First Year - Spring Semester (16 hours)
- ATG 157 Accounting Principals-Financial — 3
- MIS 173 Info. Sys. and Bus. Apps. — 3
- Business Elective — 3
- COM 103 Speech — 3
- Core Courses — 93
Sophomore - Fall Semester (16 hours)
- ATG 158 Accounting Principles-Managerial — 3
- ECO 221 Microeconomics — 3
- QM 262 Quantitative Analysis I — 3
- ENT 280 Entrepreneurial Creativity — 3
- BUS 220 Career Strategies — 1
- Core Course — 3
Sophomore - Spring Semester (16 hours)
- ECO 222 Macroeconomics — 3
- MTG 315 Principles of Mtg. — 3
- ENT 382 Entrepreneurial Startups — 3
- ENT 281 Entrepreneurial Career — 1
- Core Course — 3
- Elective — 3
Junior - Fall Semester (15 hours)
- M L 350 Managing for Results in Orgs. — 3
- ENT 383 Managing Entrepreneurial Growth — 3
- ENG 306 Business Comm. — 3
- Electives — 6
Junior - Spring Semester (15 hours)
- M L 353 Operations Management — 3
- BLW 342 Legal Environment of Business — 3
- FIN 322 Business Finance — 3
- Business Electives — 6
Senior - Fall Semester (16 hours)
- ENT 384 Entrepreneurial Finance — 3
- ENT 482 Entrepreneurial Experience — 3
- ENT Elective — 3
- Electives — 7
Senior - Spring Semester (15 hours)
- M L 452 Strategic Mgt. in Orgs. — 2
- BUS 400 Capstone Consulting Project — 2
- ENT Elective — 3
- Electives — 8