The entrepreneurship major prepares students for the challenges of today’s fast-paced and uncertain economic environment where competition is based on opportunity recognition, innovation, speed to market, and entrepreneurial drive. The curriculum is multidisciplinary and designed to give students an opportunity to develop their own creative skills while applying basic business principles to the challenges of starting a new business, growing a business, or managing a family business.

DEGREE HIGHLIGHTS

Internationally ranked business accelerator. The INKUBATOR is an internationally ranked 12-week business accelerator that helps students and alumni bridge the gap between concept and a business. Through this intense program, graduates of the program turn their entrepreneurial ideas into viable businesses. This cross-campus initiative enables students and alumni from different backgrounds to connect and start a business together.

Work on projects for local and regional companies. INKUBIZ hires, trains, and manages students to work on projects for local and regional companies. Clients receive agency-level work while students gain critical experience which better prepares them to enter the job market. Projects include branding, sales, leads, social media and marketing strategies.

Network with entrepreneurial leaders. Students have the chance to meet and interact with entrepreneurial leaders in the region and throughout the world.

Internship opportunities. Internship opportunities are very diverse and are continually being upgraded through the efforts of the department’s professional advisory boards, faculty, and the college’s business experience manager.

Make the world your classroom. Study abroad in countries around the world, including Czech Republic, Ireland, Germany and England, while taking specialized business courses.

More options. Entrepreneurship majors can choose a minor and additional elective course in a field that fits their career goals - for example, those with an interest in the arts can elect a minor in dance studies. All students are strongly encouraged to discuss their career goals with entrepreneurship faculty for guidance in choosing an appropriate minor.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Those with Northern Kentucky University entrepreneurship degrees are prepared for a wide range of business-related career paths. Some are prepared to start their own business, either soon after graduation or at some point in the future. Some are prepared to begin a more traditional leadership path where the self-reliance, initiative, creativity, and communication skills developed in this program are viewed as positive qualities by prospective employers. The major in entrepreneurship provides students with career options not available to those graduating with more traditional business majors.

Entrepreneurship Bachelor's Degree Jobs

• Founder
• Chief executive officer
• Business consultant
• Business manager
• Management analyst
• Marketing research analyst
• Recruiter
• Research & development
• Fundraiser