Entrepreneurship

The fastest growing major on campus, Entrepreneurship gives students the knowledge, resources, and ability to be successful as a principled entrepreneur in the business field.  The entrepreneurship major was founded in 2008, and was awarded the "National Emerging Program Award" for 2011.  The entrepreneurship department runs many engaging and stimulating activities throughout the year and welcomes any major across campus to participate.  In addition, the Next Big Thing competition awards over $20,000 in prize money to K-State student each year who display their entrepreneurial talents while making real world ideas a reality.

The major in Entrepreneurship focuses on developing the business skills necessary to take creative and innovative ideas, and transform them into real business ventures. This major is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary program that combines courses in Management with new courses in Marketing and Finance, as well as offering electives from non-Business departments of Mass Communications and Agricultural Economics. While the major is focused on business students, some of the courses developed for the major are accessible by all KSU students with the belief that all can benefit from an entrepreneurial culture.

Want to learn more?

Visit the Management Department webpage.

For more information about majoring in entrepreneurship and the College of Business Administration, please contact:

Curtis Morisaki
Recruitment Coordinator
(785) 532-6180
cym@k-state.edu

Entrepreneurship Coursework (sample)

 

Semester 1

  • College Algebra
  • Macroeconomics
  • Business Foundations
  • IT Skills Proficiency Exam
  • Expository Writing I
  • Aesthetic Experience and Interpretive Understanding course

Semester 2

  • General Calculus and Linear Algebra
  • Microeconomics
  • Information Technology for Business
  • Management Concepts
  • Global Issues and Perspectives Course

Semester 3

  • Business and Economics Statistics I
  • Accounting for Business Operations
  • Introduction to Marketing
  • Public Speaking IA
  • Natural and Physical Sciences with lab

Semester 4

  • Business and Economics Statistics II
  • Accounting for Investing and Financing
  • Introduction to Operations Management
  • Expository Writing II
  • Human Diversity in the U.S. course

Semester 5

  • Principles of Finance
  • Introduction to New Venture Creation
  • Business Law
  • Intermediate Microeconomics or Managerial Economics
  • Nonbusiness K-State 8 Elective

Semester 6

  • Marketing Plans for New Ventures
  • Entrepreneurship Major Field Emphasis course
  • Written Communication for the Workplace
  • Thematic Sequence course
  • Unrestricted elective
  • Unrestricted elective

Semester 7

  • Business, Government, and Society Capstone
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Financing for Entrepreneurs
  • Thematic Sequence course
  • Unrestricted elective
  • Unrestricted elective

Semester 8

  • Business Strategy Capstone
  • Small Business Consulting
  • Entrepreneurship Major Field Emphasis course
  • Thematic Sequence course
  • Unrestricted elective