Food Service Entrepreneurship

bachelor's degree    
(offered through the College of Business)
course listing

The Food Service Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s Degree program provides Baking & Pastry or Culinary Arts associate degree program graduates with the business skills necessary to open their own businesses and/or work in a management capacity of a food-related small business.
 
Graduates receive training from an integrated mix of custom entrepreneurial courses and traditional management, accounting, finance and marketing classes to build the necessary business knowledge base to capitalize on their culinary/baking and pastry skills in their career pursuits.
 
The Larry Friedman International Center for Entrepreneurship offers students most all the resources necessary to bring their business ideas to reality — technological, administrative and professional assistance. Through various programs supported by the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), these offerings include inter-action with real world business clients, an SBDC Director, student, and instructor. International programs may also include opportunities to travel overseas.
 
The University's Career Management System (CMS) helps guide and facilitate student choices. Graduates are better prepared to both operate their own business and act as a proponent of Intrapreneurship within existing organizations. An integrated mix of custom entrepreneurial courses, traditional management and marketing classes, and extensive experiential (hands-on) opportunities (both inside and outside of required classes) prepares students for their careers as business starters and/or corporate intrapreneurs in an extensive variety of industries.
 
Typically they would enter in these varied career paths as junior managers in training for more responsible management positions. Outcomes for the Bachelor of Science Degree in Entrepreneurship: Ability to demonstrate oral and written communication competencies in the development of a viable business plan. Be able to apply logic and critical thinking to the basic qualitative and quantitative analysis of small business development and sustainability. Graduates must also demonstrate the ability to identify the various types of capital funding sources for start-up and existing businesses.
 
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