The UNT College of Business Administration is one of the largest business colleges in the United States and has been continuously accredited by AACSB International — The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business [600 Emerson Road, Suite 300, St. Louis, Mo. 63141-6762, (314) 872-8481], meaning it has repeatedly passed strict academic standards for excellence in education.
The bachelor of business administration degree with a professional field in entrepreneurship is designed to assist you in developing the management skills and behaviors necessary to effectively start, grow and sustain a business venture.
There are about 25 million businesses in the United States. Some of these are very large enterprises with thousands of employees and billions of dollars in sales; most, however, are small to medium-sized businesses with fewer than 100 employees. Many of these businesses were started by a single person or group of people who had the vision and capabilities and seized an opportunity to create a new enterprise. Regardless of size, all businesses need managers who can identify opportunities, plan, obtain resources, organize, direct and control work to accomplish objectives.
In the entrepreneurship program, you will focus on courses in developing business plans, obtaining resources, managing finances, developing strategies, selecting managers and employees, organizing and designing the business, identifying and capitalizing on international opportunities, managing technology, and successfully dealing with a variety of managerial challenges.
Many career options are available to students who choose entrepreneurship as a professional field. A degree in entrepreneurship will provide you with skills to start your own venture, work with others to identify new business opportunities, join entrepreneurial ventures, or work in family or small businesses. Additionally, entrepreneurship graduates are often in demand by growth-oriented companies wanting to incorporate entrepreneurial vision and innovation in their firms, as well as by companies seeking individuals with the ability to solve business problems creatively and to improve productivity.
The degree consists of 127 semester hours, which includes the university core curriculum, pre-business courses, core courses for the bachelor of business administration degree, professional field courses and supporting courses. Students must complete 18 hours of professional field courses and 12 hours of supporting courses, maintaining a 2.5 grade point average.
MGMT 3330 Communicating in Business
BLAW 3430 Basic Law
BCIS 3610 Basic Information Systems
MKTG 3650 Foundations of Marketing Practice
MSCI 2710 Data Description and Analysis With Spreadsheets
MSCI 3710 Business Statistical Analysis Using Spreadsheets
FINA 3770 Finance
MGMT 3720 Organizational Behavior
BUSI 4940 Business Policy
MGMT 3820 Management Concepts
MGMT 3850 Entrepreneurship
MGMT 3880 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
MGMT 4220 Field Study in Entrepreneurship
MGMT 4660 International Management Perspectives
MGMT 4860 Organizational Design and Change
MGMT 4210 E-Management
Select 9 hours from the following list. Other courses must be approved in advance by the program director, department head and dean of students.
ACCT 4130 Financial Statement Analysis
FINA 4300 Liquidity and Working Capital Management
MGMT 3830 Operations Management
MGMT 3860 Human Resource Management
MGMT 3870 Management Skills and Problem Solving
MGMT 4470 Leadership
MGMT 4800 Internship
MKTG 3710 Marketing Research and Information Technology
As an entrepreneurship student, you will get a chance to apply your learning in real-world business settings in several of your courses. You will have the opportunity to interact with entrepreneurs from the Dallas-Fort Worth region. You may also complete an internship with a company in the region for 3 hours of credit.
Upon completion of 12 semester hours at UNT, with at least a 2.5 GPA, you may work in a job related to your field through UNT's office of Cooperative Education and Internships. You may earn academic credit and money for your college expenses while gaining valuable work experience. Co-op employers pay extremely well, and the jobs usually last several semesters, often until graduation. More than 800 employers work with the office to provide excellent learning opportunities.
All upper-division (junior- and senior-level) courses needed to complete this degree program are offered through the UNT Dallas Campus. You will need to take courses in the university core curriculum - required of all undergraduates at Texas public universities - and the majority of your pre-business courses at UNT in Denton, a two-year college or another institution.
Once you have been admitted to the program, advisers will help you put together your plan of study. Full-time advisers in the College of Business Administration and the Department of Management will help you plan your class schedule each semester and select courses necessary to earn your degree. The department's student adviser can provide you with answers specific to the entrepreneurship degree, and your professors are available for advice and mentoring.
The virtual library at the UNT Dallas Campus provides electronic access to several thousand periodicals, more than 400 electronic databases and a collection of thousands of books in digital format that will continue to grow. A core print collection of frequently used reference books is available on site.
An on-site staff of two professional librarians and several student assistants provides reference service. Additional reference service is available from librarians on the Denton campus. An online virtual reference desk chat room is available to students needing information from the Denton campus library system. The reference desk chat room allows users to interact directly with librarians in real time. Students may also work with Denton campus librarians via e-mail and telephone. Document delivery services from the UNT library system in Denton are provided for non-electronic resources.
The UNT Dallas Campus offers junior-, senior- and graduate-level courses leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. The Dallas Campus also offers programs leading to certifications and endorsements, and courses for career advancement. Courses and programs offered are of the same high quality as those offered at UNT in Denton and are taught by faculty from both the Dallas and Denton campuses. Dallas Campus students earn their degree from the University of North Texas.
The UNT Dallas Campus features the region's first virtual library, state-of-the-art classrooms, computer labs with Internet access and other services to help students achieve success.
The Dallas Campus is conveniently located at 7300 Houston School Road, three blocks north of Interstate 20, and is accessible by public transportation.
Since its opening in January 2000, enrollment at the UNT Dallas Campus has increased every semester. When enrollment equals 1,000 full-time equivalent students, UNT can begin the process to open UNT at Dallas - the first public university within the Dallas city limits.
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