Turn your dream business into reality — or join Austin’s exciting startup community — with a degree in 创业.

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Explore your options — classes, 实习, research and study abroad. 查看 创业专业指南 找到你感兴趣的东西, 发现你的所爱, and create a major experience that jumpstarts your future. 

Become a strategic innovator and learn from the best in one of the country’s top cities for starting a business.

作为一个创业专业的学生, you’ll get a solid foundation in finance, accounting and marketing while learning how to identify market opportunities and create a new product or service. 你将学习设计思维, social entrepreneurship and sustainable and ethical business strategies that resonate with your values.

Develop and pitch your idea at 3 Day Startup, iChallenge on the Hilltop and the 商业计划竞赛, where you’ll get feedback from mentors. Learn how to try, fail fast, evaluate your mistakes and move on. Take advantage of the many partnerships between the Bill Munday School of Business and Austin entities like 资本的工厂, 奥斯汀启动爬行 and Impact Hub Austin. You’ll have no shortage of opportunities to network with experienced entrepreneurs who want to give back.

Get in on the ground floor at an Austin startup — or launch your own dream company. 你将带着韧性毕业, creativity and strategic thinking that will serve you in any work environment.

五年内获得两个学位

Complete your BA in 创业 and Master's Degree (MBA) with our pathway to receive two degrees in five years.

成功的教练 and Academic Advisors guide students through undergraduate and graduate courses to maximize benefits. 了解更多.

创新的过程

在3天的创业，40街. 凯发国际集团 students decide which six ideas they will be working on over the course of the weekend. 阅读更多关于这一点 program supports our student entrepreneurs.

课堂内外

Austin is the ideal place to study entrepreneurship, and St. 爱德华的 encourages you to take advantage of networking events, 实习, and volunteer opportunities at showpiece events like the South by Southwest Conference and Festivals. But you’ll have opportunities to learn by doing on campus, 太, 通过学生组织, pitch competitions and talks by visiting professionals.

体验式教育

Your classes will send you into the community to research and create potential businesses.

在创业方面, you’ll interview local entrepreneurs and work with a local startup entrepreneurial entity.

In Social Responsibility of Business, you’ll participate in a service activity in the community and write a paper about the experience. You’ll also work in a team to create a new product or service for a company that will meet a social need for an underserved community.

在创业实习中, you’ll focus on starting up a venture that serves the community and is based on strong social justice values. The course requires extensive interaction with potential customers and stakeholders to research the market for your business and determine how you would sustain it.

学生组织

The Student 创业 Club attracts innovation-minded members from all majors. 会见当地企业家, learn leadership skills, volunteer at Austin events and support fellow students’ startups.

Develop your startup ideas with the help of a professional mentor and practice pitching them at 3-Day Startup, the iChallenge Pitch Competition and the Business Plan Pitch Competition.

Participate or volunteer at the annual ATX Hack for Change, in which teams spend a weekend developing technology-based solutions to city- and community-wide problems.

Top students are invited to join Sigma Nu Tau, the entrepreneurship honor society.