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B.S. in Entrepreneurship


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Find a better way through redemptive entrepreneurship. 

Grove City College offers a Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship with preparation exceeding that of most entrepreneurship degrees in the country. As an entrepreneurship major in our four-year ACBSP-accredited program, you will learn what it takes to start your own business or bolster one established already. When you graduate, you will be ready to enter competitive graduate programs or thrive in the workforce with a honed skillset and big-picture vision. 
 

Experiential Learning Opportunities
  • The Center for Entrepreneurship + Innovation (E+I)—which recently earned national entrepreneurship distinction for its “bold and innovative” model for best practices in innovative entrepreneurship education.
  • Award-winning VentureLab—an early-stage business and social enterprise idea-feasibility lab that provides funding and guidance to student teams who want to advance new product development and business ventures.
  • Habbershon Family Innovation Zone designed for students of all majors to utilize for brainstorming, collaborating, and more—featuring moveable tables, chairs, and six double-sided whiteboards that can be wheeled around the space.
  • Grove City College partnership with Praxis—a nonprofit organization connecting students with Christian entrepreneurs who innovate ways to serve society, honor God, renew a broken culture, and lift a fallen world.
  • Opportunity to attend Praxis Academy—a program for builders and entrepreneurs that provides communal learning experiences putting faith into action through work. Participants learn from imaginative exemplars of redemptive leadership and build authentic relationships with students from all over the world. Alumni of the program benefit from resources such as a talent network and job board to find roles at redemptive ventures.
Other Program Highlights
  • Personal access to accomplished faculty mentors with real-world experience who will equip you with in-depth, comprehensive knowledge and professional development to set you apart in the working world.
  • Faith-centered, redemptive approach to entrepreneurship—discover how you can join God in creative restoration by way of venture building and innovation.
  • Internship opportunities with startups, business incubators, large corporations, small businesses, family businesses, nonprofit entities, and mission-minded organizations. Recently students have interned with Uline, Kindred, and Jonas Paul Eyewear, to name a few examples.
  • ACBSP accreditation that ensures industry-standard quality of curriculum and program objectives.
  • Business College of Distinction status.
  • Active on-campus groups led by students, including the Business Initiative for Leadership Development (BuILD), the CEO (Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization) Club, Management Association, American Marketing Association, Society for International Business Affairs, Delta Mu Delta honor society, Student Government Association, and American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA).
  • Real world Business Advisory Group that keeps our program up to date on the latest industry developments, hiring practices, required skills, and technology trends to help us best prepare students for success.
  • 67-68 credit hours of rigorous undergraduate coursework balancing breadth and depth to provide you with an understanding of the mechanics of the entrepreneurial process. Our curriculum gives you the opportunity to work with entrepreneurs, engage in idea-generating culture, make ethical and faith-based decisions, create a mindset for blended value impact, and participate in cross-disciplinary work. For detailed course descriptions, access the College Catalog.
  • Development of valuable skills such as business modeling, ideation, accounting, finance, marketing, technology, strategy, risk assessment, and creative problem solving, as well as the ability to conceptualize, finance, launch, manage, and harvest a wide variety of new ventures.
  • Departmental minors available in digital entrepreneurship, social innovation, social enterprise, redemptive entrepreneurship, missional entrepreneurship, and social entrepreneurship, as well as flexibility to earn a double major or minor in another discipline of interest.
Career Outcomes
  • If you’re like 96% of Grove City College graduates within six months of graduation, you could turn your venture into a full-time organization or build your career with startups and established companies like PraxisLabs, E*Trade, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Chick-Fil-A, Gecko Robotics, Victory Media, Mylan, Net Health, Wells Fargo, Uline, and Hewlett-Packard.
  • You could also be admitted into competitive professional programs like the Capital Fellows and Pittsburgh Fellows, or pursue a graduate degree at such institutions as Temple University Beasley School of Law.
  • Following our students’ legacy of excellence, you are likely to successfully demonstrate competitive technical knowledge on the Major Field Test (MFT).
  • Whether you end up in a small or family business, nonprofit, or large corporation, you’ll stand out as a critical thinker and effective communicator with an exemplary work ethic and well-rounded perspective.