Entrepreneurship

Address: Bryan Building
Phone: 336.256.8507
Web site: www.uncg.edu/bae/badm

Majors & Concentrations

• Entrepreneurship (BS) U718

What's unique about Entrepreneurship at UNCG?

Our cross-disciplinary entrepreneurship program consists of more than 30 courses from across campus and has three options: a major (B.S. Entrepreneurship), a minor for business students (five courses), and a minor for non-business students (five courses). It is for those who want to start and grow a business or work in an existing organization and be creative and innovative—skills that are needed for success in the 21st century. Students choose courses from seven specialties that are based on research on job growth for the next 20 years. Our program leads North Carolina in the number of courses and the selection across campus—be on the leading edge with your career!

Academic Clubs and Organizations

• Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization (CEO): The CEO works to inform, support and inspire college students to be entrepreneurial and seek opportunity through enterprise creation. Joe Erba is the faculty advisor at UNCG. Please email him at jrerba@uncg.edu for meeting information.

Student Opportunities

Internship opportunities and research opportunities with new and existing organizations in almost all disciplines are available. The North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center at UNCG and the Career Center work with businesses to provide these opportunities.

Study abroad opportunities are available through the Bryan School and the International Programs Center.

Careers

Career opportunities include:

• Start your own venture
• Work in a fast-growth, innovative firm
• Join or buy a family-owned business
• Buy a business or become a franchisee
• Gain employment as a corporate entrepreneur, pursuing entrepreneurial ideas and concepts in a larger, established organization
• Bring entrepreneurial skills and abilities to an organization in the public sector
• Become a social entrepreneur, creating a new non-profit enterprise or for-profit enterprise that creates value by addressing societal needs that are being unmet or delivered in new and different ways
• Bring an entrepreneurial perspective to another discipline, such as architecture, sciences, social sciences, or the arts

Professional Organizations and Accreditation

The Bryan School is accredited by the AACSB International (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).

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