Undergraduate Minor
The Undergraduate Minor in Entrepreneurship is designed for students who are interested in pursuing a practical education in how to start a business or how to make innovation a cornerstone of their career paths. The minor is open to all undergraduate students at Northwestern.
The undergraduate minor requires 8 courses, which includes 5 core courses and 3 electives. No more than 3 courses may be double counted toward a student’s major program. Courses with a grade lower than “C-” (C minus) cannot be applied to the minor.
Students must declare the minor at least one year prior to their expected graduation date.
Interested in pursuing our Undergraduate Minor in Entrepreneurship?
The first step is to review the required coursework outlined below. You can also set up a meeting with a Farley Center student ambassador to learn more about the program and ask questions. If you have a question that cannot be answered by an ambassador, feel free to email us at farley@northwestern.edu. When you are ready to declare, please log into the McCormick Advising System (MAS) with your NetID and password to submit an electronic declaration form; you will use this system to declare the minor and manage your plan of study, even if you are not a McCormick student.
Core Courses
To ensure a broad exposure to key entrepreneurial concepts, minor candidates must take one core class in each of the five following areas:
- Foundations
- Leadership
- Leadership, Ethics & You (ENTREP 360) or Topics in Leadership (ENTREP 395)* or Entrepreneurship Demystified (ENTREP 361)**
- Finance
- Marketing/Branding
- Entrepreneurial Sales & Marketing (ENTREP 331) or Brand Strategy Workshop (ENTREP 395)* Personal Branding (ENTREP 310)** or Storytelling for Business (ENTREP 311)**
- Experiential
- Any Farley Center experiential course - includes NUvention courses, Engineering Entrepreneurship (ENTREP 325), Innovate for Impact (ENTREP 340), Consulting for Wearable Tech (ENTREP 425) and Product Management (ENTREP 490)
*Note that special topics courses labeled ENTREP 395 are offered periodically. For current course offerings please see the Farley Course Schedule.
**These courses are not currently offered by the Farley Center, but can still be counted toward the entrepreneurship minor if they were completed prior. Contact farley@northwestern.edu with questions.
Electives
To supplement the five core courses, students must select three electives from the following:
- Any Farley Center course
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Pre-approved 300-level coursework related to entrepreneurship and innovation from other schools and programs on campus, including BUS_INST, DSGN, and IMC. For any outside coursework to be applied to the minor, it must be approved by the Farley Center in advance, and must be in compliance with double-counting rules. Contact farley@northwestern.edu with questions.