Bachelor of Business Administration Entrepreneurship Concentration

The Entrepreneurship concentration is offered for students who are interested in starting their own business or contributing to the success of a start-up organization. Through classroom and community experiences, students identify viable career options in entrepreneurship, expand their knowledge of the process and develop their own entrepreneurial management skills.

The Entrepreneurship concentration imparts the necessary skills and knowledge to research, plan and prepare a viable proposal for the development of a new business. The program is tailored to convey traditional business concepts to the specific needs of an entrepreneur as CEO. The emphasis on reliance on one’s self as the controller of one’s destiny is stressed as is the ability for entrepreneurs to greatly impact their community.

Founded in 1877, Philander Smith College is the result of the first attempt west of the Mississippi River to make education available to freedmen (former African American slaves). The forerunner of the college was Walden Seminary, named in honor of Dr. J.M. Walden, one of the originators and the first corresponding secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Society.

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