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Are you interested in launching a new product, starting your own company or revolutionizing a market? The Entrepreneurship Concentration will provide you with the theoretical and practice-based background needed to manage new ventures in start-ups and at established organizations. You’ll have the opportunity to work with faculty, alumni working as venture capitalists, and local business owners and entrepreneurs to create and propose new business plans. 

Requirements to Declare Concentration

Completion of J-Core coursework is required for all courses noted below but MIS. As of Fall 2024, Receiving a B- or better in MKTG 311 is a prerequisite for declaring the concentration.  

Concentration Requirements

As of Fall 2024, in addition to the standard curriculum for the BSBA degree, students wishing to fulfill a concentration in Entrepreneurship are required to complete a total of five courses (specified below). At graduation you must have a combined GPA of 2.7 or higher in your Entrepreneurship concentration courses to be awarded the concentration. Only courses taken at °®¶¹´«Ã½ or as part of a study abroad program will count towards a concentration GPA.

Coursework

The schedule of course offerings is available in the official °®¶¹´«Ã½ Schedule of Classes on .

Descriptions of courses are listed in the and course descriptions for the upcoming semester are available on .

Contact Undergraduate Academic Advising for the most updated list of core courses and electives, as well as required pre-requisites.

Required Courses (5 total/4 if enrolled in SOM prior to Fall 2024)

Complete all of the following:

• ENT 460 - Entrepreneurship

  The focus of this class is on recognizing opportunities and creating new ventures. We will investigate the "mindset" of an entrepreneur, as well as the components, tools, and the best practices of entrepreneurship. We will use the most up to date practices of the startup ecosystem to evaluate the viability of your new venture; write a business plan; build an "E-team" that possesses the attributes necessary for success; financing; starting and operating a business, and creating liquidity for shareholders. IF YOU ARE EXCITED ABOUT STARTING A NEW VENTURE AND WANT TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS CLASS, YOU NEED TO SUBMIT A ONE PAGE DOCUMENT EXPLAINING; YOUR IDEA; WHAT PROBLEM IS IT SOLVING? WHO HAS THIS PROBLEM? MOREOVER, HOW ARE THEY SOLVING IT SUBMIT THIS TO: frontera@binghamton.edu 4 Credits Traditionally offered fall and spring semesters Levels: Undergraduate

• ENT 465 - Entrepreneurial Finance

  Levels: Undergraduate

Electives

Select three of the following (select only two if enrolled in SOM prior to Fall 2024):

• LEAD 351 - Leadership Skills&Development

  Levels: Undergraduate

• LEAD 353 - Strategic Leadership

  Levels: Undergraduate

• LEAD 354 - Innovation and Creativity

  This class will learn what organizations do to stimulate creativity in employees and throughout the organization, manage the innovation process, foster external ties for partnerships for innovation, and bring products to market. Students will interact with Chief Innovation Officers and team members of these organizations. Students will also be encountering and practicing creativity skills and tools themselves in the classroom turned Innovation Lab. Not open to students with credit in LEAD 480A Levels: Undergraduate

• MKTG 320 - Marketing Research

  Levels: Undergraduate

• MKTG 460 - Strategic Product & Brand MGMT

  Levels: Undergraduate

• MKTG 465 - Social Media Marketing

  Levels: Undergraduate

• MIS 460 - E-Business

  This course introduces the fundamental concepts and implementations of e-business. There are two purposed of this course. First, students are provided with e-business concepts in MIS and Marketing. This covers the important topics in e-commerce such as market mechanisms, retailing, consumer behavior, customer service and advertising, B2B and collaborative commerce, etc. Second, students are learning and practicing web design with HTML and major web design tools. Students will extend the understandings of internet strategy through utilizing the Internet to target customers and create and implement business plans. 4 credits Prerequisites: MIS 311 Offered Fall semesters Levels: Undergraduate