Management
Entrepreneurship Major
About the major
This year U.S. News recognized Marquette’s program in entrepreneurship as 16th among the nation’s top business specialty programs.
It starts with an idea. Successful entrepreneurs, however, realize that even the best ideas will go nowhere without a plan - and that the best plans will go nowhere without the will and skill to execute them. Marquette University's major in entrepreneurship is designed to give you the knowledge and skills to know yourself, and to channel your entrepreneurial spirit.
IDEALISM AND REALISM TOGETHER. Unlike other schools' entrepreneurship programs, Marquette emphasizes a realistic approach to lifelong career planning, not just quick-hitting, fast growth ventures. It's an approach that benefits students who already run their own businesses, as well as those preparing for that eventuality.
KNOW YOURSELF. You'll learn to recognize which business opportunities fit best with the type of person you are intellectually, socially and, yes, even spiritually. A well-planned curriculum combined with classroom visits from a diverse set of successful entrepreneurs and consultants will give you a person-centered approach to entrepreneurship.
BEGIN NETWORKING NOW. Make connections through Marquette University's Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship. The Golden Angels Network brings successful business owners together with students in the classroom and provides early opportunities for start-up investment, mentoring and advising all of which are vital to future entrepreneurs.
To complete the requirements for a major in Entrepreneurship, students need to complete coursework as specified below:
Specific Entrepreneurship Requirements
27 Credits
- ENTP 3001 (Understanding Entrepreneurship) 3 credits
- ENTP 4010 (New Venture Creation) 3 credits
- Three electives from the following:
- ENTP 4020 (Consulting to Entrepreneurs) 3 credits
- ENTP 4080 (Entrepreneurial Finance) 3 credits
- ENTP 4931 (Topics in Entrepreneurship) 3 credits
- ENTP 4986 (Internship in Entrepreneurship) 3 credits
- ACCO 4080 (Financial Statement Analysis) 3 credits
- BULA 4001 (Business Law) 3 credits
- MANA 3034 (Negotiations and New Ventures) 3 credits
- MARK 4060 (Marketing Research) 3 credits
- MARK 4094 (Sales Management) 3 credits
- REAL 3001 (Principles of Commercial Real Estate Development) 3 credits
- NOTE: Other business electives may be submitted; consult Entrepreneur Advisor
- Four Business Electives (12 credits)
NOTE: One International Business Course is required (within or outside your major).
In addition to the requirements for the major, all students in the College of Business Administration complete courses that comprise a university core of common studies, non-business electives in addition to 45 hours of core business courses.
Social Entrepreneurship within the Entrepreneurship Major and Minor
The Entrepreneurship Major and Minor are individualized programs that naturally accommodate all (legal and ethical) forms of entrepreneurship. For students interested in social entrepreneurship, it works as follows:
- ENTP 3001 focuses on individual self-discovery, including spiritual life, and exposures students to religious motivations for ventures and to social entrepreneurs as class guests (e.g. Jean Davidson of the Yell and Tell foundation and Steve Wallace of Omanhene Cocoa Bean Co. - facilities in Ghana). Students do a self-portrait essay and projects towards a venture, which is a social venture if that is their choosing. They also use a non-prose medium to depict the customer or client experience of their venture. This of course can also be for a social venture.
- ENTP 4010 is a business plan course, in which students interested in social ventures can write their plans for such purposes.
Students then take an elective and an experiential course. The elective can be: ENTP 4931, the Social Entrepreneurship course, will be getting a permanent course number. If they choose ENTP 4931, International Entrepreneurship, which will be ENTP 4040, it includes cases and readings on social ventures, and students can select their project topic in the social entrepreneurship area. For the experiential course, we prefer that they take it in their home department. If they cannot find one that fits their needs, they can take: ENTP 4020 (Consulting to entreprenurs), in which students can select a social venture entrepreneur as their client. Though it is not required in the academic program, the Business Plan Competition also helps social entrepreneurs develop their ventures.
Business Core Requirements
- LEAD 1000 (Foundations for Business Leadership) 1 credit
NOTE: Students transferring into the college with Jr. standing or higher are required to complete BUAD 1002 (Computer Literacy in Business) instead of LEAD 1000. - LEAD 2000 (Applying Business Leadership Skills) 1 credit
- LEAD 3000 (Strategies for Entering the Business World) 1 credit
- ACCO 2030 (Financial Accounting) 3 credits
- ACCO 2031 (Managerial Accounting) 3 credits
- MANA 2028 (Business Statistics) 3 credits
- ECON 2003 (Principles of Microeconomics) 3 credits
- ECON 2004 (Principles of Macroeconomics) 3 credits
- ECON 3001 (Applied Business Economics) 3 credits
- FINA 3001 (Introduction to Financial Management) 3 credits
- MANA 3001 (Behavior and Organization) 3 credits
- OSCM 3001 (Operations and Supply Chain Management) 3 credits
- MARK 3001 (Introduction to Marketing) 3 credits
- INTE 3001 (Introduction to Information Technology) 3 credits
- Legal and Regulatory Elective 3 credits
Choice of one:
- BULA 3001 (Legal Environment of Business)
- BULA 3040 (The Legal and Regulatory Environment of International Business)
- HURE 3001 (Management of Human Resources)
- MANA 3002 (Business and Its Environment) or PHIL 4330 (Business Ethics) 3 credits
- MANA 4101 (Strategic Management) 3 credits
Non-Business Required Courses
56 Hours
- ENGL 1001 (Rhetoric & Composition 1) 3 credits
- ENGL 1002 (Rhetoric & Composition 2) 3 credits
- Literature Elective 3 credits
[For course selection, refer to http://www.marquette.edu/core; be sure to select literature course.] - Diverse Culture Elective 3 credits
[For course selection, refer to http://www.marquette.edu/core.] - Histories of Cultures and Societies Elective 3 credits
[For course selection, refer to http://www.marquette.edu/core.] - Science and Nature Elective 3 credits
[For course selection, refer to http://www.marquette.edu/core.] - MATH 1390 (Finite Mathematics) 3 credits
- MATH 1400 (Elements of Calculus) 3 credits
- PHIL 1001 (Philosophy of Human Nature) 3 credits
- PHIL 2310 (Theory of Ethics) 3 credits
- CMST 2300 (Public Speaking for business) 2 credits
- THEO 1001 (Introduction to Theology) 3 credits
- Theology Elective 3 credits
[For course selection, refer to http://www.marquette.edu/core.] - Non-Business Electives 18 credits