Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship program, through both its major and minor, creates strong leaders, creative thinkers, and exemplary colleagues. 

We emphasize the entrepreneurial mindset. You will learn to think like an entrepreneur whether in your own new venture or by spearheading innovation within an established organization. 

Through rigorous academic coursework, insights from prolific guest speakers, and comprehensive practical experiences, as a student in our program, you will:

• Apply entrepreneurial thinking to solve real-world problems, both in startups and established companies.
• Lead and manage teams with a focus on innovation and results.
• Adapt and thrive in dynamic and challenging environments, ensuring sustainability and success.
• Approach your career and personal goals with unwavering determination and grit.

We focus on on positive individual transformation by teaching students to continuously improve, to develop resilience, and to create and pursue their vision with unyielding determination.

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Launch Businesses That Profit

While most programs focus on teaching just one entrepreneurial process, we teach three. This allows us to provide a significantly more individualized path that allows you to do two things: 

1. Double your odds of attaining a profit at key points in the life of your new venture; and
2. Significantly reduce the odds of your new venture failing at key points. 

We accomplish this through specific coursework designed to teach each process, regular work with guest speakers and mentors, and leadership opportunities within the program itself. 

Student Testimonial

"There is one shared struggle that every college student faces. The dilemma of what to do with our lives. At such a young age, we have the weight of the world’s expectations upon our shoulders. We are expected to know at 20, what we are going to do until we are 60. The reality is that most people choose wrong, and either choose a career path entirely unrelated to their degree or else become stuck in a job that they despise.  

However, it is because of this struggle, that we are able to appreciate the beauty of Entrepreneurship. Freedom. The freedom to choose what we want to do with our lives, the freedom to potentially choose wrong and be able to bounce back from it. Entrepreneurs aren’t limited to a single career path. Once you have developed the entrepreneurial skill set, mindset, and spirit, you give yourself limitless opportunities to transform anything into a thriving business. You can invest in a degree, or you can invest in yourself. Invest in yourself with a major or minor in entrepreneurship."

Joshua Harrington
Vice President, RWU chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization

Entrepreneurship is for Everyone

Have you dreamed of owning your own business? Many people will find themselves owning their own new venture at some point in their life. Anyone in the arts hoping to own their own studio, anyone in healthcare whether mental or physical hoping to own their own clinic, and anyone hoping to engage in creative endeavors such as writing and graphic design will all gain the skills necessary to do so in the Entrepreneurship minor or as a double major.

Value Propositions 

• The entrepreneurial mindset
• Knowledge, skills, and abilities to start a business
• Presentation skills
• Creative and innovating thinking
• High personal growth
• Continuous improvement
• Leadership
• Networking
• Mentorship
• Guest speakers from industry
• Emotional intelligence
• Collaboration 
• Extracurriculars
• Competitions and other resume items

Experiential Learning

• Learn from exceptional guest speakers, currently practicing in the field of entrepreneurship.
• Conduct research to write your own original case studies.
• Work with professors toward academic publication.
• Work as consultants with local entrepreneurs to help solve the real problems that keep them up at night.

Collegiate Entrepreneur's Organization

Our chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization is for those interested in growing themselves outside of the classroom! If you're interested in growing your business or just rubbing shoulders with other driven, like-minded students, come check us out!  We have guest speakers, collaborate on businesses and business ideas to help one another reach the next level. No matter where you are is in your journey, you'll find friendly, helpful people in this group. We have fun, too! 

More than just a RWU phenomenon, our chapter is just one of over 250 chapters nationally as part of a network of entrepreneurs over 16,500 strong. The organization provides regional and global events, competitions, experiential learning, and many, many online resources dedicated to helping aspiring entrepreneurs! 

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