Entrepreneurship Degree - Online and Campus Programs

Use Your Entrepreneurship Degree to Grow Your Own Career

Classes in entrepreneurship teach you small business management skills. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 75 percent of all entrepreneurs working a second job (using their entrepreneurial skills to create their own career while still holding down a job for an employer) worked in four occupational groups:

• Executive, managerial, administrative
• Professional specialty
• Farming, forestry and fishing
• Sales occupations

Trade school can be a great way to pursue your degree in entrepreneurship. With a degree in business management, taking core classes in entrepreneurship, you can follow your heart to find the business you want to pursue as a small business owner. A bachelor?s of science degree in entrepreneurship requires 120 credit hours in business management, with focus on small business development and growth. Students learn to identify opportunities, work with venture capitalists, understand business ownership and work in economic development. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, second job entrepreneurs made anywhere from $392 a week in the executive, administrative and managerial field to over $1450. Entrepreneurs working in professional specialties made from under $450 weekly to $1470.