西新英格兰学院

The Entrepreneurship curriculum prepares students to develop and operate their own business organization or work as entrepreneurs within a larger organization. The principles and techniques students majoring in Entrepreneurship will learn will be equally applicable to entrepreneurial opportunities in business, government, social, and academic organizations. The Entrepreneurship major is best suited for students who have the ambition and aptitude to become involved in the activities and processes associated with business start-up and expansion. Students majoring in Entrepreneurship will learn the importance of the following skill sets: task commitment and determination, organizational leadership, team-building, problem solving and solution providing, tolerance for risk and uncertainty, creativity, self-reliance, and the ability to initiate change and improvement in the business environment. Entrepreneurship is a cross-disciplinary major based on student learning-by-doing, faculty team teaching, and the creation of innovations by small teams.

Career Opportunities

The Entrepreneurship major will help prepare students for entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial career paths. Specific job titles for students completing the Entrepreneurship curriculum would include marketing managers; product, brand or program managers; customer services managers; planning or innovation managers; and other positions involving the creation and management of innovation.

Program Learning Goals

Having completed a major in Entrepreneurship, the student will have the ability to:

Demonstrate the ability to recognize, shape, select, and create ideas that will lead to the development of feasible business models and new ventures.

Demonstrate the ability to lead and communicate the selling of innovations to key stakeholders.

Understand how to source, secure, and retain innovation resources for new ventures during the early phases of development.

Understand how to manage an entrepreneurial team and evaluate and mitigate innovation challenges during the process of start-up phases of an entrepreneurial organization.

Note: International students who have been admitted for Fall 2020 and are unable to travel to the US may defer their admission to Spring 2021.