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Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s Degree and Certificate

Our Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s degree and Certificate curriculum provides fully online courses taught by successful entrepreneurs who incorporate their first-hand insight about developing a successful business, including creating a business idea, writing a human resources/staffing plan, and forming a business launch and operations plan from start to finish.

As a part of our AcceleratED program, our Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s degree is available fully online and can be completed in as little as 18 months through six-week courses and our competitive transfer policies, which allow you to transfer your previous college credit—regardless of your previous area of study. In as little as eight months, you can graduate with your Entrepreneurship Certificate.*

Earn Your Entrepreneurship Bachelor's Degree in as Little as 18 Months

Bachelor's Degree

Our coursework focuses on four areas of study designed to help you start a new business, elevate your current business, and execute your ideas with an entrepreneurial mindset:

  1. Planning For Success
  2. Bringing Your Ideas to Life
  3. Building and Managing a Successful Enterprise
  4. Driving Business Growth

Through case studies, first-hand accounts from some of today's most successful entrepreneurs, and success strategies from faculty members who are seasoned business owners, your Entrepreneurship Bachelor's degree prepares you with the relevant skills you need to become a successful entrepreneur in today's market.

Certificate

Our Entrepreneurship Certificate is designed for Associate's degree holders and can be completed fully online in about eight months.*

As a Certificate student, your coursework focuses on building a solid foundation to apply entrepreneurial thinking and processes to start a new business, elevate your current business, or execute your ideas within your company or organization, including:

  • Building a business plan
  • Analyzing opportunities for new products and services
  • Leveraging technology to optimize the entrepreneurial process

You also learn strategies and tactics to inspire others while building a sustainable business environment and to effectively communicate with stakeholders across all departments.

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Program Highlights
  • Earn your Bachelor's degree in as little as 18 months*
  • Competitively priced tuition at $260 per credit*
  • Market-relevant courses led by seasoned business owners
  • Advanced curriculum on key business concepts
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Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s Degree Courses

Our Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s degree courses provide the knowledge and practical and relevant skills needed to run a successful business in today’s competitive market. If you are a current business owner, you can apply your coursework and assignments directly to your business.

  • Weekly synchronous live sessions
  • Drive decisions through data
  • Examine and evaluate product lifecycles
  • Emphasis on risk mitigation

Sample Course List

Business Innovation: Best Practices in New Business Development
Students will explore sources of creativity and innovation and how to use them to brainstorm new business ideas. Techniques to inspire creativity, harness market and customer insights, and identify winning business ideas will be examined. Students will develop methods of critical thinking and assessment to identify new business opportunities and assess concept viability. Students will gain the knowledge needed to begin a business plan.
Evaluating New Business Opportunities
The purpose of this course is to review new business opportunities for entrepreneurs and to design a tool for evaluating these opportunities. Students will use this tool to apply the criteria to their new business, product, or service, and create a business strategy for the new venture. Key obstacles to the success of new business will be analyzed and students will create plans to mitigate the risks of those obstacles.
Funding a New Business
Funding new ventures is a critical process that requires both creativity and business acumen. In this course, students will develop the skills to analyze the financial value of a startup business idea and develop the skills to successfully pitch a new idea to gain funding. Identification and evaluation of capital funding sources, like Angel Investors, as well as structuring the financing agreements will be discussed and analyzed. This course teaches students to utilize data based decision making for long-term and day-to-day activities.
Managing and Growing a Sustainable Organization
Managing a small business workforce, the finances of a growing business, and developing scalable operations is a crucial part of the success of an entrepreneur. In this course, students will analyze cases of business successes and failures. Students will also examine and evaluate the product life cycle. Viable, sustainable growth strategies will be created using various business situations. Students will apply what they learn to a new business, product, or service or new business venture in an existing organization. Global operations for small businesses are also evaluated and analyzed.
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Estimated Program Cost

  •   Full Time Part Time

  • Upper division courses

    Upper division courses

    Upper Division courses are either listed as 300-400 or 3000-4000 level, depending on the state.

     $299 $310

  • Lower division courses

    Lower division courses

    Lower Division courses are either listed as 100-200 or 1000-2000 level, depending on the state.

     $299 $395

  • Estimated Price

    Estimated Price

    Price if you are continuously enrolled in your program of study until graduation. Estimated price does not include $150 course fee.

  • Grants
    None Partner Success

  • Discounts
    None Corporate Military

  • Transfer Credits

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FACT

Our programs are created to prepare students for careers projected to be in strong demand in the future-giving our graduates increased opportunity to land the job they want.

Job Growth

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates a 15% job growth for Administrative Services Managers over the next 10 years.

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Increased Affordability

Continuously enrolled students lock in their tuition rates. 93% of students receive financial aid assistance.

The Federal Pell Grant Program awards between $575 - $5,550 to eligible students based on financial need. The Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants awards $100-$4,000 (based on availability) to eligible students based on financial need.

The Federal Pell Grant Program awards between $575 - $5,550 to eligible students based on financial need. The Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants awards $100-$4,000 (based on availability) to eligible students based on financial need.

The FL Student Assistant grant is awarded to eligible undergraduate students with FL residency and based on financial need.

The ND state grant is valued at $1200/ year and is awarded to eligible undergraduate students with ND residency and is notified by the state regarding eligibility.

Credit Transfer

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GRADUATE EMPLOYMENT RATE

Placement Rate Methodology: 85% of March 2011 to December 2011 graduates available for employment were employed in their field of study or continuing their education as of September 30, 2012. This rate includes graduates across all Rasmussen College programs and campuses working in their field of study or continuing their education at Rasmussen College or another institution. This rate does not specify that each graduate was placed by Rasmussen College in their current position; some graduates find jobs on their own while others maintain previously held employment.

Bureau Of Labor Statistics (BLS)

BLS salary data represents national, averaged earnings for the occupations listed and includes workers at all levels of education and experience. This data does not represent starting salaries. Employment conditions in your area may vary.

Tuition Lock

Tuition rate is locked in for continuously enrolled students. A change in the number of credits taken during enrollment in any quarter may lead to different prices if a student moves from part-time to full-time status or vice versa.

Federal And State Grants

Students must meet applicable eligibility requirements for state and federal grant programs—please speak with a financial aid advisor for details.

Time To Complete

Time to complete is dependent on accepted transfer credits and courses completed each quarter.

Credit Transfer

Rasmussen College reserves the right to accept or deny credits based on policies listed in the college catalog.

Corporate Discounts

Discounts may vary by corporate partner and program. Please contact a program manager for more information.

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Estimated Potential Earnings

If you invested in your degree and started a career as a , the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) states the median yearly salary for this career is . At that rate, your estimated return on investment would be over the course of a lifetime.

A career as a is just one career option you can pursue with your degree. Your income potential can vary based on your specialization or industry, and you should explore all your options to find the career that is right for you.

A Degree Matters

Earning an Associate's or Bachelor's degree—regardless of the field of study—can greatly improve your income potential in today's job market. In fact, according to the BLS, degree holders earn, on average, significantly more than high school diploma holders:

National Average Lifetime Earnings**
Unemployment Rate**
Bachelor's Degree
$2,281,040
4.9%
Associate's Degree
$1,763,440
6.8%
Some College
$1,622,240
8.7%
High School Diploma
$1,367,880
9.4%
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**http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/acs-14.pdf, http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm

Potential earnings calculated by multiplying median full-time salaries by 40 years http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm

Seamless Transfer Policies

  • Transfer your Associate's or Bachelor's degree, regardless of subject area and date of completion, to complete your degree in as little as 18 months
  • Transfer in successfully completed credits, regardless of subject of study
  • General education credits have no expiration date
  • Transfer credits in from previous learning, work, and military experiences

Your Future-Faster

Maximizing your transfer of credit is one way Rasmussen College helps minimize your time to graduation. Through our AcceleratED courses, we also help streamline your time to graduation with focused six-week courses. This efficient course structure, combined with our extensive transfer policy options, can allow you to complete your Bachelor's degree in as little as 18 months.

Estimate your time to graduation using our credit and course calculator below:

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Estimated Time to Complete your Bachelor's Degree**

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AcceleratED Bachelor

You can complete your degree XX months faster with the
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Information on transfer policies

Transfer Credit

This calculator is based on semester credits. If you are transferring quarter credits, simply divide your quarter credits by 1.5 to get semester credits. The maximum amount of semester credits is eighty (80).

Time to Complete

Estimate for qualified individuals transferring in more than 60 quarter credits. Actual time to completion will be based upon transfer evaluation by Rasmussen College eligibility.

Rasmussen College reserves the right to accept or deny transfer of credit based on the guidelines found in the Rasmussen College course catalog. Time to complete will depend on number of credits transferred and number of credits taken by student each quarter. Cost does not include $150 course fee.

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*Expected graduation date dependent on the number of credits transferred. Speak with a program manager to learn about our comprehensive transfer policies that work to maximize your credit transfer and minimize your time to graduation.

 
 

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