Entrepreneurship, BS
The Entrepreneurship program prepares students for administrative and leadership positions in business, government, and other institutions. Specialized training is directed at understanding the broader aspects of business as it functions within a national and international environment. The program focuses on the development of entrepreneurial and leadership capabilities including, recognizing viable business opportunities and developing business concepts that allow firms to take advantage of unique competencies and capabilities. In addition, there is substantial emphasis on the acquisition and allocation of resources, as well as on organizing, leading, and empowering people.
Availability
This program is available at the Uintah Basin Campus via the following Instruction Type(s):
Courses are delivered via state of the art video conferencing technology. Students meet at a designated time and location.
Admissions
Students must be formally admitted to Utah State University. For current undergraduate admissions requirements or other information, or to complete an online application, visit www.usu.edu/admissions/applynow.
Freshman students may be directly admitted into the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business as Entrepreneurship majors with a 3.6 high school GPA and a 26 composite ACT score. Transfer students with 24 post high school credits may be directly admitted with a 3.5 cumulative GPA. All other students may apply to the Huntsman School of Business upon completion of 24 post high school credits with a 2.5 cumulative GPA. Admission to the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business also requires a College of Business academic agreement. This form is available online at www.huntsman.usu.edu/degreesmajors/business.cfm and may be faxed to (435) 797-2399 or mailed to:
CEO Center
Utah State University
3505 Old Main Hill
Logan UT 843223505
Requirements
The curriculum is comprised of three components:
- University Studies courses
- Business Foundation courses
- Entrepreneurship Major courses
The University Studies component of the curriculum consists of 27 to 31 credit hours of required general education courses. These courses are available through Utah State University Regional Campuses and centers located throughout the state. A minimum GPA of 2.50 is required for admittance into all Business courses.
The Entrepreneurship curriculum is offered via interactive broadcast delivery on a schedule that cycles approximately every two years. Required courses, other than those required for University Studies (General Education), are listed below. See an advisor with regards to the completion of the other requirements.
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The U.S. economy is powered by entrepreneurship. Most of the new job creation in the past two decades comes from the small business sector. Student surveys indicate that many USU business students end up working for start-up and growth-oriented businesses. The entrepreneurship degree is an integrative degree that teaches both theory and practice with respect to starting and growing businesses. It prepares students to make decisions based on the impact to the whole organization and provides unique perspectives and insights with respect to how to recognize viable business opportunities and to develop business models that take advantage of unique competencies and capabilities. In addition, substantial emphasis on the appropriate acquisition and allocation of resources, as well as organizing, leading, is placed on empowering people.
The curriculum for the major was developed by the departmental e-team (entrepreneurship faculty members). After a comprehensive literature review and interviewing numerous practitioners, the following list constitutes our content-specific learning objectives for students choosing the entrepreneurship major.
1.Entrepreneurial Environment
This includes the role of entrepreneurship in the global economy and an understanding of factors that are more or less favorable to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship.
2.Entrepreneurs
Who are entrepreneurs? How, why, and when do they get involved in entrepreneurship?
3.Opportunities
How do individuals identify opportunities and turn them into viable businesses?
4.Entrepreneurial Competencies
Opportunity competencies
Relationship competencies
Conceptual competencies
Organizing competencies
Strategic competencies
Commitment competencies
5.Business Planning
6.Compliance Issues
Legal forms, licensing, regulation, taxation.
7.Ethical Issues
Ethical issues in new venture creation and growth
8.Harvest
Creating value, evaluating value, harvesting decisions and processes
Courses:
Jon M. Huntsman School of Business Core Courses
- ACCT 2010: Survey of Accounting I
- ACCT 2020: Survey of Accounting II
- BUS 3110: Management Fundamentals
- BUS 3400: Finance Fundamentals
- BUS 3500: Marketing Principles
- BUS 3700: Operations Management Fundamentals
- BUS 4880: Business Strategy
- ECON 1500: Economic Institutions
- ECON 2010: Intro to Microeconomics
- ECON 3400: International Economics for Business
- MATH 1050: College Algebra
- MATH 1100: Calculus Techniques
- MHR 2050: Legal and Ethical Environments of Business
- MIS 2100: Principles of MIS
- MIS 2200: Business Communication
- PSY 1010: General Psychology or
- SOC 1010: Intro to Sociology
- STAT 2300: Business Statistics
Required Courses
- BUS 3610: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
- BUS 3620: Developing Entrepreneurial Competencies
- BUS 3710: Interpersonal and Team Skills
- BUS 3820: International Ventures
- BUS 4610: Advanced Entrepreneurship
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