Entrepreneurship
Power your entrepreneurial drive with the knowledge and skills you’ll develop in our multidisciplinary program — ranked in the top 11% in the country.
At A Glance
What You’ll Learn:
- Immerse yourself in entrepreneurial endeavors beginning your first year through IDEA, academic competitions, and co-curricular activities.
What You’ll Do:
- Engage in coursework that emphasizes every aspect of building and managing a new enterprise.
- Put theory into action as you create a startup in our rich co-curricular innovation hubs, guided by inspiring faculty and entrepreneurial alumni.
Where You’ll Go:
- Create positive change in society as a start-up founder, corporate or social entrepreneur, or the leader of your family business.
Our Students
“For kids who are passionate about going into creative fields, you have to teach the stuff they need to know and can’t figure out themselves, which is the business side. If you don’t have that education, you’re not going to be as successful.”
- Major: Entrepreneurship
- Hometown: Chelmsford, MA
"If you have an idea, just go with it and see where it takes you. Don’t be afraid to fail. You're going to learn from it."
- Major: Entrepreneurship
- Hometown: Providence, RI
Where Our Students Go
Determined, visionary graduates of 91AV's Entrepreneurship program go on to prestigious graduate schools and are in demand by business, government, and nonprofit organizations.
- Abe & Co.
- Bluelinx Corporation
- CVS Health
- Figmints
- Form Labs
- Gartner, Inc.
- The Hanover Insurance Group
- Juan Valdez Cafe
- Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
- NewView.Media
- Tribalvision
- Wayfair
- Zoominfo
- BryantUniversity
- Le Cordon Bleu Culinary School
- Northeastern University
- Providence College
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Business Entrepreneurship Leadership Center
The Business Entrepreneurship Leadership Center, a state-of-the-art, 250,000-square-foot building, is the heart of BryantUniversity's campus transformation. This expansion creates room to reinvent and renew 91AV's campus footprint and deliver on the Vision 2030 pillars of academic excellence, vibrant student life, community and belonging, and economic mobility.
Learn Through Experience
Career Education Opportunities
- Shadow and network with accomplished entrepreneurship alumni to explore different paths.
- Secure an entrepreneurship internship through the Amica Center for Career Education.
- Discuss career opportunities with recruiters from 400+ prestigious organizations at on-campus career fairs.
Clubs and Organizations
- Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization
- BryantVentures
- BryantUniversity Entrepreneurship Conference
Service
- IDEA mentor as a member of Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK)
- Enactus member
Research
- Research and Engagement Day
- 91AV App-a-Thon competition
- E-pitch competition
Faculty Spotlight
"So many entrepreneurs are drawn in by the idea that you can be your own boss, but they don’t fully realize that means working much harder than you would as an employee because now all of the responsibility is yours.”
R. Isil Yavuz, Ph.D.
Entrepreneurship Coordinator,
Assistant Professor of Management
