Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship, B.B.A.

Management
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Joshua Aaron, program coordinator
Joshua.Aaron@mtsu.edu

The major in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship offers preparation to students for successful venture creation and implementation and provides them opportunities to acquire the necessary operational knowledge to start a new enterprise and to study business communication, marketing, finance, management, economics, accounting, and information systems from an entrepreneurial perspective. The curriculum is flexible-students may tailor the program to fit specific needs while acquiring the business background necessary for pursuing entrepreneurial goals. Successful business professionals contribute to the program and an advisory board of recognized entrepreneurial leaders mentors students. Specialized courses, an internship, and interaction with acknowledged business leaders are intended to provide the impetus to start and operate a successful business.

A major in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship consists of 30 hours, 50 percent of which must be taken in residence at MTSU.

The program below includes a Business Administration minor. An alternate business minor may be chosen, but it may require total hours for graduation to exceed 120.

Academic Map

Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship, B.B.A., Academic Map

Degree Requirements

General Education	41 hours
College of Business Core	42 hours*
Major Requirements	30 hours
Auxiliary Course	3 hours*
Business Course	3 hours
Electives	1-7 hours
TOTAL	120 hours

*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the General Education curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill General Education requirements, the number of elective hours will increase.

General Education (41 hours)

General Education requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in Communication, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences.

The following courses required by the program meet General Education requirements:

MATH 1630 or MATH 1810 (Math)
ECON 2410 (Soc/Beh Sci and core course)

College of Business Core (42 hours)

All students must complete the College of Business Core which requires 42 hours with a 2.000 GPA.

Major Requirements (30 hours)

ENTR 2900 - Entrepreneurship 3 credit hours
ENTR 3600 - Innovation Acceleration 3 credit hours
ENTR 3650 - New Venture Creation 3 credit hours
ENTR 4620 - Business Plan Development 3 credit hours
FIN 3040 - Entrepreneurial Financial Management 3 credit hours
MKT 3200 - Marketing for Entrepreneurs 3 credit hours
ENTR 4950 - Entrepreneurship Applied Experience 1 to 3 credit hours (3 credit hours required)
ENTR/MGMT/MKT elective 3 credit hours
ENTR 4920 - Small Business Management 3 credit hours OR
MGMT 4920 - Small Business Management 3 credit hours
ENTR 4100 - Family Business 3 credit hours OR
MGMT 3730 - Management of Innovation 3 credit hours OR
ENTR 4255 - Social Entrepreneurship 3 credit hours

Auxiliary Course (3 hours)

MATH 1630 - College Mathematics for Managerial, Social, and Life Sciences 3 credit hours (may be counted in General Education) OR
MATH 1810 - Applied Calculus I 3 credit hours (may be counted in General Education)

Business Elective (3 hours)

Electives (1-7 hours)

Curriculum: Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Curricular listings include General Education requirements in Communication, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences categories.