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Entrepreneurship Studies Certificate

Learn entrepreneurship skills that employers crave and enhance your career — no matter what it is.

Designed for non-business majors, gain business know how and administrative functions from this non-degree certificate program at the University of North Dakota.

Program type:
Certificates/Programs - Undergraduate
Format:
On Campus
Est. time to complete:
1 year
Credit hours:
9
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Why earn a certificate in entrepreneurship?

UND offers a non-degree program for non-business majors to learn about business and administrative functions to provide career enhancement.

Studying entrepreneurship at UND means learning how to make big ideas come to life. You'll get hands-on experience working with real clients on real projects, and have an opportunity to learn with men and women who have started where you are now — and succeeded. But as any successful entrepreneur will tell you, building something built to last takes more than just a concept. It means understanding business inside and out.

This program will appear on student transcripts to provide official recognition for completion of this educational experience.

UND Entrepreneurship Graduates

Designed to provide non-business majors with skills they need, many who earn a Entrepreneurship Studies Certificate have:

  • Used entrepreneurship skills to move up within a company
  • Open a new business
  • Paired with an undergraduate major to make resume stand out

UND's Entrepreneurial Studies Certificate

  • Gain investment experience using real money at the Dakota Venture Group, a student-managed venture fund.

  • Develop product and business ideas on campus at the Center for Innovation, Ina Mae Rude Entrepreneur Center and James Ray Idea Lab.

Entrepreneurship Certificate Course Requirements

ENTR 101. Introduction to Entrepreneurship. 3 Credits.

ENTR 101 is an introductory course structured to provide a firm basis as to the critical role entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship plays in the global economy. Entrepreneurship will be analyzed, debated, assessed, and explored experientially throughout the semester from an interdisciplinary perspective. Entrepreneurship will be viewed as a manageable process and way of thinking, acting, and behaving applicable not only to business endeavors, but to everyday problems existing in the workplace and society. F,S.

ENTR 290. Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Concept Development. 3 Credits.

Every successful venture, big or small, started with a problem and an idea for a solution. Venture success is a measured combination of feasibility, viability, testing, and luck. Too many entrepreneurs, unfortunately, rely strictly on luck. This course will show you how to test your business idea through customer discovery and validation; business and revenue modeling; effectuation; and the ability to communicate all of your findings to stakeholders. Whether for-profit, not-for-profit, or an internal corporate project/venture, success or failure doesn't happen by accident. Learn the tools that give you the best chance to win. F,S.

ENTR 386. Financials for Entrepreneurs. 3 Credits.

This course will review key financing concepts to give entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs a guide to securing funding. Students will develop the skills necessary to complete the financial section of a business plan. Concepts that are taught include sources of capital, the economic ecosystem, core and adjacency strategies, lean startups and strategy pivots, customer value creation and switching costs, pricing models, operating costs, cash flow planning, revenue forecasts and financial projections, private and public company analysis, and franchise evaluation. At the end of the course students should be able to think critically about business and make critical strategic evaluations during the course of a business lifecycle. F,S.

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