Turn Your Business Idea Into Reality With An Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s Degree
Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s Degree
Starting a business or elevating your current business requires specific business knowledge applicable to small business owners. As an Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s degree student, your coursework focuses on four areas of study designed to help small business owners succeed:
- Planning For Success
Your courses help you gain the relevant knowledge and skills required to run a small business in today’s market, as well as an understanding of the traits commonly found in successful entrepreneurs. You will create a business plan for your small business idea, and you will continue to develop this one plan throughout your courses until it is fully developed and ready to be launched. - Bringing Your Ideas to Life
You have your business idea in hand, and now you will learn how to fund your business, manage and grow your business, create marketing plans for your business, apply today’s technology to your business, and develop strategic growth plans to advance your business. - Building and Managing a Successful Enterprise
Successful day-to-day operations are essential for long-term growth of small businesses. Your courses will help you understand accounting basics and recognize when you should outsource this responsibility; how to hire employees who can add to your business success and how to develop workplace policies; and how to develop customer service relationships that keep your customers returning. - Driving Business Growth
Launching your business is the first step. Growing your business is the next step. Business growth can result from many different avenues, and your courses provide insight into a few of the most important growth avenues, including:- Accommodating international markets
- Analyzing legal and ethical issues so your business is not hindered
- Ownership structuring so your business is poised for growth
- Leading teams into new ventures
As a part of our AcceleratED program, our Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s degree is available completely online and can be completed in as little as 18 months through six-week courses and our competitive transfer policy.*
*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.
Complete Your Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s Degree in as Little as 18 Months
Our online six-week courses taught by successful entrepreneurs, who provide first-hand insight into what it takes to develop a successful business, including:
- Business idea—creating a business idea that works
- Financial plan—long-term and short-term
- Human resources/staffing plan
- Business launch plan and operations plan
- Process management for starting and selling businesses
From strategy development to tactical implementation, you will apply these insights and your learned skills and knowledge to your business plan to make it come to life as you complete your degree. Through case studies, first-hand accounts from some of today’s most successful entrepreneurs, and success strategies from faculty who are seasoned business owners, your Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s degree provides the relevant skills you need to become a successful entrepreneur in today’s market.
Plus, by transferring your previous college credit—regardless of your previous area of study—you can complete our Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s degree in as little as 18 months.*
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.
Key courses include:
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.
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.
Entrepreneurs Continue to Succeed in Today’s Market
As an Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s degree student, you learn how to launch and build a successful company and how to build new enterprises with existing companies through courses that focus on essential entrepreneurship skill development, including:
- Business management
- Capital acquisition
- Leadership
- Strategic planning
- Sales and marketing
- Financial management
- New product research and development
- Contract negotiation
- Business ethics
Our practical and relevant skills development helps you become a successful entrepreneur in today’s competitive market.
Seamless Credit Transfer Policies
Our AcceleratED transfer policies are designed to maximize your credit transfer and help you graduate in as little as 18 months*:
- Transfer your Associate’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 and military experiences
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.
**See Rasmussen College course catalog for terms and restrictions.
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