Entrepreneurship Minor

Learn how to turn your ideas into action—whether that means starting a business, leading a team, or making an impact in your field. Stand out to employers and gain the tools to create your own path. The entrepreneurship minor is open to all majors.

Why Entrepreneurship at Valpo?

Develop managerial experience and the skills required to bring products and services to the marketplace. Participate in entrepreneurial start-ups, business plans, market studies, financing, and other areas essential to a successful business start-up. Regardless of your major, with a minor in entrepreneurship you’ll establish a foundation in cooperation, leadership, innovation, performance, and social responsibility.

The entrepreneurship minor is for business and non-business majors.

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About Our Entrepreneurship Minor

Students completing the entrepreneurship minor will acquire an understanding of the venture creation process including how to generate and develop a new business concept, apply quantitative and qualitative methods and analytical tools to identify and evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities, use data and analysis to create and evaluate a business plan, and evaluate different funding sources for a new venture. A critical element of the program is an entrepreneurship consulting opportunity in which students conduct an audit of an existing entrepreneurial firm in the local community.

Program Requirements

Minor Requirements
One Course From the Following Options:
BUS 100	The Business Experience	3 Cr.
ENT 100	Introduction to Entrepreneurship	3 Cr.
Required Courses:
ENT 300	Creativity and Innovation	3 Cr.
ENT 330	Business Planning and Venture Finance	3 Cr.
ENT 420	Entrepreneurial Consulting	3 Cr.
ENT 490	Innovation Insights	1 Cr.
One Course From the Following Options:
ENT 450	Entrepreneurship and Product Development	3 Cr.
GE 497	Senior Design Project I	3 Cr.
Total:		16 Cr.

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Program Rankings & Highlights

Top 5%

of business schools worldwide with AACSB accreditation

96%

of grads are employed or attending grad school

100%

of students take part in internships

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Professors. Mentors. Friends. At Valparaiso University, you will work on real-life problems alongside faculty leaders with decades of business experience and a true desire to do what’s best for you.

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