Small Business Management & Entrepreneurship
Start and grow your own business. Learn how to turn ideas into action. Build skills in planning, marketing, and operations so you can launch or manage a business with confidence.
Business Program Highlights
Business is booming.
A business degree is one of the most flexible degrees you can hold, opening doors to numerous career fields, from marketing to human resources to administration. Our certificates, training credentials, and associate degrees allow you to enter managerial or sales roles quickly with skills employers are looking for in potential team members.
Employers appreciate potential team members who can demonstrate skill achievements accomplished throughout their education journey, noting that they often require less training than other new graduates and that they come equipped with practical skills.
Faculty with connections.
Many of our instructors have previous or current careers in business-related fields, so they bring real-life experiences into their courses. And, they stay connected to business trends in order to provide relevant and meaningful content, adapting how and what they teach to reflect today's business world.
Small Business Management & Entrepreneurship Training Credential
This Training Credential Pathway offers you the opportunity to acquire skills to manage your own company or to supervise an employing firm’s daily operations by learning and applying basic business principles. Upon completing this credential, you'll be able to manage a firm’s operations, which include developing goals and effectively managing firm’s resources – capital, financial, and human. This training credential may also be applied toward the Associate of Applied Science in Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship Degree.
Graduates with a business education may enter many different careers including accounting, advertising, economics, finance, general business, management, marketing, human resources, industrial relations, and public administration. Depending on the organization in which they work, they may become generalists or specialists.
Management
Managers develop strategies and policies to ensure that an organization's goals and objectives are met. Their responsibilities can include a wide range of roles, whether it's as the superintendent of a school or park, manager of retail location, or the chief executive officer of a large corporation.
Marketing, Advertising, & Public Relations
Marketing and advertising professionals promote a firm's products or services, coordinate market research, develop marketing strategies, determine the demand for and potential sales of products and services, propose advertisements and promotions, and use available communication channels to target specific audiences.
Human Resources
Helping organizations attract the most qualified employees and matching them to the jobs for which they are best suited, recruiting and interviewing new employees, providing advice on hiring decisions, and helping to improve morale and limit turnover by providing training and boosting employee satisfaction with jobs and working conditions are the key functions of human resource professionals.
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