BBA Entrepreneurship business

Many top business men and women started as entrepreneurs. At Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, we tailor our Entrepreneurship Degree to provide students like you the opportunity to learn what it takes to be that next great business leader like Steve Jobs (Apple), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook) or Brad Smith (Intuit).

In our accredited Entrepreneurship degree program, we provide you with the education, steps and guidance to make your business dreams a reality.

A bachelor’s degree in Entrepreneurship at Marshall University provides a well-rounded focus in business disciplines such as management, finance, accounting and economics. Our Entrepreneurship program is one of just a few accredited programs in West Virginia and the region.

Marshall’s Lewis College of Business is accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International or AACSB. The AACSB is a global nonprofit association that connects educators and students to business to create the leaders. Since 1916, the AACSB has provided quality assurance with business schools throughout the country.

Students who graduate from Marshall University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Entrepreneurship will develop skills in critical thinking, oral and written communication, and problem solving. In addition, the Entrepreneurship degree program is structured to optionally allow double-major aspirants to concurrently satisfy dual-degree programs.

Marshall’s Entrepreneurship students also benefit by learning techniques and methodologies that provide a competitive edge in the innovation and business model competitions hosted by our Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation. 

During spring 2019, our Entrepreneurship students competed in the inaugural West Virginia Innovation and Business Model Competition, with the two Marshall teams finishing first and second in the state finals event. They out-placed competitors from West Virginia University, University of Charleston, Concord University, Glenville State College and West Virginia Wesleyan College, and earned $5,000 (first place) and $3,000 (second place) prize awards as well as a trip to Silicon Valley. In addition, the first-place team advanced to the International Business Model Competition in Provo, Utah, and earned an additional $2,500 in prize money. For the 2019-20 academic year, Marshall University students will be eligible to compete in an innovation competition and a separate business model competition for similar prize awards.

With our close connection to entrepreneurship, Marshall University in 2015 hosted the Governor’s School for Entrepreneurship for high school students. Students and faculty in our Brad D. Smith Schools of Business strive to see entrepreneurship become the economic engine of West Virginia.

Entrepreneurship jobs are wide ranging and full of opportunity in West Virginia and beyond. Jobs can include:

Entrepreneurship can mean a variety of things, from starting a business to getting involved with innovative ideas.

A degree in Entrepreneurship provides students with a background in:

You will have the chance to expand your entrepreneurialism and form close industry-academic partnerships at the new Brad D. Smith Business Incubator located in downtown Huntington, West Virginia, at the Marshall University Visual Arts Center. 

Entrepreneurship majors also can work with the iCenter, or the Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation. Driven by Intuit’s Design for Delight innovation technique, the iCenter has reached 612 people through its speaking engagements on innovation and entrepreneurship. The former CEO of Intuit, Marshall alum Brad D. Smith helps to shape the program as it advances in today’s workforce.

In addition to redesigning our business programs to include experiential learning, we are building new facilities like the Brad D. Smith Center for Business and Innovation, with spaces to foster collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurship.