CURRICULUM, AND NOT ARCANE, DUSTY BUSINESS TOMES

While pursuing a business major or minor with an entrepreneurship concentration, your nose won’t be lodged between two pages of a book 24/7. We want you to smell the coffee, so you’ll stay wired and engaged. You’ll use your critical thinking skills in practical, hands-on ways to identify opportunities, evaluate them, develop a plan for prototyping and testing new ideas, bring them to market, test, retest, craft solutions to problems, and more. Whew!

But wait! You won’t just dip your toe in business theory. Brace yourself, because you’ll dive right in. You’ll explore, conceive, analyze and discuss the entrepreneurial process — and then fully bake your knowledge into a real, sustainable business model that advances the common good.

PSST.

AN ENTREPRENEURSHIP MINOR PAIRS WELL WITH… Computer Science, Music Business, Engineering, Biology and Exercise Science (actually, it goes with everything).

BEEF UP YOUR RESUME EVEN BEFORE YOU TAKE YOUR FIRST COLLEGE CLASS. The Freshman Innovation Immersion is an action-packed, mind-stretching, two-day experience. You get to work with a team of fellow first-year students to create a business concept and learn the basic principles of entrepreneurship. You’ll learn critical thinking, ideation, improvisation, creativity, business modeling and more. You and your team will present your concept to business leaders for the opportunity to score awesome cash and prizes.

Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge

We host one of the nation’s largest business plan competitions, awarding more than $215,000 in cash prizes for the best ideas.