Entrepreneurship
What is entrepreneurship?
Entrepreneurship is the process of designing, launching and running a new business, or recognizing opportunities for innovation within an existing firm. The program focuses on four areas: developing an entrepreneurial mindset, learning how to launch a business, learning how to manage and grow a small or family business, and leading change in an existing organization.
Why entrepreneurship at OSU?
Our program is designed to help students learn how to identify promising opportunities and then bring them to life. A promising opportunity enhances someone's life, makes a business or individual more efficient or effective and contributes to society at large. Our academic program coupled with opportunities available through the Riata Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship represent an ideal mix. In the classroom, students will learn the fundamentals of the entrepreneurial process, and they can then practice and fine-tune what they've learned through Riata Center competitions and experiential activities.
Career paths
An Entrepreneurship major provides the skills necessary for students to pursue career opportunities in:
- New venture creation
- For-profit or non-profit social ventures
- New business development or research and design sectors
- Small or family businesses
- Franchise organizations
- Buying a franchise
21:1 Student to Faculty ratio
in Spears Business classes.
Highlights
Student Success in Business Plan Competitions
Students compete in national business plan competitions. School of Entrepreneurship graduate-level teams placed 1st in the prestigious state-wide LOVE’s Cup competition in 2018, 2022 and 2023. Students also have access to entrepreneurship-specific internships, competitions, study abroad trips and scholarships.
Eastin Center for Career Readiness
Through the Eastin Center, OSU supports students’ professional growth from awareness to knowledge acquisition, practice and ultimately successful implementation.