Program Overview

Entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate

The Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship helps students develop entrepreneurial mindsets and skillsets needed to create and lead new innovations, initiatives, and startup ventures. Participants will learn how to recognize opportunities, formulate solutions, design business models, deliver results, and sustain success. These capabilities will empower graduates to help others by providing them with access to innovations that solve important problems.

Program Overview

This certificate is especially valuable to those interested in managing business development, championing innovation, leading change, and launching startup ventures. The skills acquired are essential to professional agility, resilience, impact, and sustained success and are valued by established organizations as well as startups.

Program Requirements

Total Credit Hours Required

• 9 Credit Hours Minimum beyond the Bachelor's Degree

Program Prerequisites

• Those applying who are NOT currently enrolled in a UCF graduate program must have a minimum of 2 years of full-time work experience after completion of the bachelor's degree.

Degree Requirements

Required Courses

• Complete all of the following:
  • ENT6016 - New Venture Design (3)
  • ENT6206 - New Venture Implementation (3)
• Complete at least 1 of the following:
  • ENT6617 - Entrepreneurship in Established Organizations (3)
  • ENT6185 - Technological Entrepreneurship (3)
  • ENT6946 - Small Business Consulting (3)
  • ENT6619 - Creativity and Entrepreneurship (3)

Grand Total Credits

• 9

Application Deadlines

• Spring: December 1
• Fall: July 1
• Application deadlines are subject to change.