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.

·       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.

·       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.

·       Students complete 61+ hours of general education requirements in humanities, sciences, foreign language and electives.

·       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.

·       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.

·       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.

·       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.

·       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.