The Certificate in Entrepreneurship is designed to provide students with the skills needed to create, launch and manage a small business or to work in an entrepreneurial company. For entrepreneurs with established businesses, the certificate will help strengthen their business and management skills. The Lean LaunchPad (LLP) is a winter course on how to create a startup using agile startup tools and frameworks. It is a practical, intensive and experiential course designed for teams of students who are serious about creating a startup company.
The course teaches Customer Development, which requires students to leave the building and test their business hypotheses with real customers, and uses the Business Model Canvas as a dashboard. The UGA Entrepreneurship Certificate Program prepares students to become successful and dynamic entrepreneurs in the private, public and non-profit sectors. It is also a valuable learning opportunity for those interested in founding a startup, a non-profit organization, or pursuing investment banking or angel financing. The entrepreneurship certificate exposes people who don't specialize in business to entrepreneurship and cultivates an entrepreneurial mindset.
By earning a certificate, you'll learn the tools to start a successful business. A main focus of the program is to allow the student to adapt the program to their individual program of study. Develop your business competence and develop fundamental business skills through a combination of courses and experiential learning. The certificate provides a practical introduction to the field of entrepreneurship.
Graduate students must complete 2 of the 3 ENTR courses, one of them must be ENTR 7500: Introduction to Entrepreneurship. To obtain the entrepreneurship certificate, students must complete a sequence of five courses designed to introduce fundamental business concepts, extend those concepts to specific areas of interest to students and put them into practice through an experiential practice in which they develop real-world business projects designed by themselves. Yes, you must have a specific project in mind to study the Entrepreneurship Practitioner (ENGN 1931T). Students who study the entrepreneurship certificate take a sequence of five courses, comprising two basic courses, two elective courses and an experiential course in which they develop and promote a business project of their own design.
The UGA Entrepreneurship Certificate Program is open to all UGA students, both graduate and undergraduate, who have 30 credit hours and a cumulative GPA of 3.0 at UGA. This class will examine how the world of work is changing, how these changes relate to organizations and entrepreneurship, and what skills are needed to shape the future of work in a sustainable, ethical and inclusive way. This course introduces students to social innovation and social entrepreneurship and involves them in identifying important issues, problems, tools, strategies, and models that drive bold solutions to complex contemporary problems. The Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship is open to all UGA graduate students and provides an opportunity to develop the skills needed to launch and grow businesses and social enterprises.
This Entrepreneurship Certificate program is intended only for students who are not enrolled in a Business Administration degree program. Students must complete three courses (nine credits) and accumulate points by participating in the extracurricular entrepreneurship activities of the Business School. The Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship is open to all UGA undergraduate students who have completed at least 30 credit hours, a cumulative UGA GPA of 3.0, and are at least 3 semesters left before graduating. The University Curriculum Council has provided an overview of undergraduate certificates at Brown, as well as detailed guidelines for students who want to obtain them, including the entrepreneurship certificate.
