Entrepreneurship Concentration

Do you want to make a difference? Create something new and innovative? Solve a daunting challenge?

entrepreneurship students deliver a pitch during a poster competition

Inquire, Create, Innovate

Great ideas can come from anywhere. The Business Administration degree with a concentration in Entrepreneurship helps you turn those ideas into action by combining creativity, innovation and business strategy skills.

Entrepreneurship programs at Towson University emphasize recognizing opportunities, solving complex problems and creating value wherever your career takes you. Through hands-on learning, you'll explore how to evaluate ideas, develop business models, manage through uncertainty and transform concepts into actionable strategies and innovations.

In this concentration, you'll strengthen your leadership, strategic thinking and communication skills while learning how to pitch ideas, inspire others, and bring innovative products, services, and initiatives to life.

The Entrepreneurship concentration prepares you for careers ranging from startup founder and small business owner to product manager, business consultant, innovation specialist, and corporate entrepreneur (also known as an intrapreneur). No matter where you begin your career, you'll be equipped to recognize opportunities, drive innovation and create meaningful impact.

Towson University's entrepreneurship program will teach you valuable skills such as:

An entrepreneurial mindset that takes ideas from concept to completion
Recognizing opportunities and how to determine if they are worth pursuing
How to deal with ambiguity and pivot to realistic pathways forward
Take a holistic approach that allows you to critically think how to solve complex issues
Effectively and persuasively communicate to pitch your ideas

Entrepreneurship graduates report:

Greater career success than their peers
Higher levels of critical professional competencies than their peers that are important to employers
Landing more dynamic job roles than their peers

We offer several programs for you to gain these skills.

Entrepreneurship Programs

Concentration in Entrepreneurship

The concentration in entrepreneurship is open to all business majors. We offer several electives that allow you to tailor your education to your interests (for example, tackling a social mission).

Minor in Entrepreneurship

The minor in entrepreneurship is open to anyone at Towson University. Plus, you may have already taken a course that counts in the minor. More than 50 entrepreneurship and innovation-oriented courses from across the university can be used as an elective in our minor.

Certificate in Entrepreneurship - It's Stackable!

Are you interested but not ready to commit? Take some classes and see if it's right for you. The certificate in entrepreneurship requires 4 courses. As a bonus, you can then count these four classes toward the minor or concentration in entrepreneurship. This is what we mean by "stackable."

Admission Requirements

Business administration is a screened major. Students are admitted to the business administration major (BUAD) only after successfully completing a set of required courses with a C or higher in each of those courses and an overall TU GPA of 2.0 or higher. See all admission requirements.

Degree Requirements and Course Descriptions

View degree requirements and course descriptions for the business administration major with the entrepreneurship concentration in the Undergraduate Catalog.