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Grove City College offers Entrepreneurship as a major
for business students and a minor for non-business
students. Encouraged by strong administrative and
faculty support, by the spring of 2002 the
entrepreneurship curriculum grew from a few courses to
emerge as a major course of study, Students receive a
strong foundation of the principles of accounting,
finance, management, marketing, etc., and then focus-in
on the world of small business and start-ups.
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Each entrepreneurship major has a core of 27- credit hours of business
courses covering the basic functions of business,
which also fulfills their quantitative general education requirements;
they are required to take between 21-27 hours of entrepreneurship
courses and have 9-credit hours of entrepreneurship related electives
from which to choose.
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Students take
a total of 7 hours of quantitative business courses, 9 hours of economics
including a course focused on entrepreneurship theory, and 15 hours
of finance and accounting courses. Students may choose to emphasis
small business, manufacturing, or retail in their entrepreneurship
electives.
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Students complete
61+ hours of general education requirements in humanities, sciences,
foreign language and electives.
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Students may
choose to have a mentor their last two years of their program, and
the student and the potential mentor are profiled to help ensure a
suitable match.
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Throughout the
curriculum students have a heavy team involvement.
- Students will serve on a minimum of four teams during their last
two years creating business and marketing plans as well as managing
simulated businesses and projects.
- Students receive instruction in the formulation and conduct of teams
as part of their project assignments.
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The capstone
business plan course is taken in the fall of the senior year, and
the plan is automatically entered into the campus-wide business plan
competition from which students receive written feedback from a team
of five practicing entrepreneur reviewers; students may utilize the
counsel of one outside entrepreneur as an advisor but all plan work
must be their own original work.
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While Entrepreneurship
majors must write a business plan their senior year, all college majors
may, in all four years, participate in the campus-wide business plan
competition.
- The campus-wide business plan competition will have a prize
package of nearly $14,000 for 2007.
- Beginning in 2003 and continuing this year the Engineering program
has adapted their senior design classes to the creation of business
plans and are entered in the business plan competition.
- Matching selected students to these teams is facilitated.
- A student may graduate from this program with as many as four distinct
business plans written on their own or as part of an entrepreneurial
team.
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The “High-Tech
Venture Start-up” course was implemented in Spring 2005 for Computer
Science majors.
- This course was team-taught by Dr. William Birmingham –
Computer Science, Dr. Blair Allison, Mechanical Engineering, and Dr. Jim Dupree – Entrepreneurship.
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