Turn your dream business into reality — or join Austin’s exciting startup community — with a degree in Entrepreneurship.

Major Roadmap

Explore your options — classes, internships, research and study abroad. View the Entrepreneurship Major Guide to find what interests you, discover what you love, and create a major experience that jumpstarts your future. 

Become a strategic innovator and learn from the best in one of the country’s top cities for starting a business.

As an Entrepreneurship major, you’ll get a solid foundation in finance, accounting and marketing while learning how to identify market opportunities and create a new product or service. You’ll study design thinking, social entrepreneurship and sustainable and ethical business strategies that resonate with your values.

Develop and pitch your idea at 3 Day Startup, iChallenge on the Hilltop and the Business Plan Competition, where you’ll get feedback from mentors. Learn how to try, fail fast, evaluate your mistakes and move on. Take advantage of the many partnerships between the Bill Munday School of Business and Austin entities like Capital Factory, Austin Startup Crawl and Impact Hub Austin. You’ll have no shortage of opportunities to network with experienced entrepreneurs who want to give back.

Get in on the ground floor at an Austin startup — or launch your own dream company. You’ll graduate with resilience, creativity and strategic thinking that will serve you in any work environment.

Earn Two Degrees in Five Years

Complete your BA in Entrepreneurship and Master's Degree (MBA) with our pathway to receive two degrees in five years.

Success Coaches and Academic Advisors guide students through undergraduate and graduate courses to maximize benefits. Learn More.

The Process of Innovation

In 3 Day Startup, 40 St. Edward’s University students decide which six ideas they will be working on over the course of the weekend. Read more about how this program supports our student entrepreneurs.

The Classroom and Beyond

Austin is the ideal place to study entrepreneurship, and St. Edward’s encourages you to take advantage of networking events, internships, and volunteer opportunities at showpiece events like the South by Southwest Conference and Festivals. But you’ll have opportunities to learn by doing on campus, too, through student organizations, pitch competitions and talks by visiting professionals.

Experiential Education

Your classes will send you into the community to research and create potential businesses.

In New Venture Creation, you’ll interview local entrepreneurs and work with a local startup entrepreneurial entity.

In Social Responsibility of Business, you’ll participate in a service activity in the community and write a paper about the experience. You’ll also work in a team to create a new product or service for a company that will meet a social need for an underserved community.

In the Entrepreneurial Practicum, you’ll focus on starting up a venture that serves the community and is based on strong social justice values. The course requires extensive interaction with potential customers and stakeholders to research the market for your business and determine how you would sustain it.

Student Organizations

The Student Entrepreneurship Club attracts innovation-minded members from all majors. Meet local entrepreneurs, learn leadership skills, volunteer at Austin events and support fellow students’ startups.

Develop your startup ideas with the help of a professional mentor and practice pitching them at 3-Day Startup, the iChallenge Pitch Competition and the Business Plan Pitch Competition.

Participate or volunteer at the annual ATX Hack for Change, in which teams spend a weekend developing technology-based solutions to city- and community-wide problems.

Top students are invited to join Sigma Nu Tau, the entrepreneurship honor society.