Entrepreneurship • Economics
Department of Entrepreneurship
Miami University’s Entrepreneurship Program is an internationally recognized program that emphasizes strong academic research and immersive, real-world learning opportunities in startup and venture capital, social entrepreneurship, corporate venturing and technology commercialization, and creativity and innovation. Distinguishing features include a cross-disciplinary focus that engages students from a wide range of majors across campus in practice-based, immersive curricular and co-curricular programs that connect with entrepreneurial ecosystem builders and provide extensive opportunities for practical, hands-on experience.
Entrepreneurship Student Spotlights
FSB Entrepreneurship Consistently Ranks at the Top
The Entrepreneurship Program attracts students from across the university because the skills and tools learned in our curriculum are applicable to all walks of life.
Entrepreneurship co-major and minor exposes students to the mindset and behavior of successful entrepreneurs as well as the principles and concepts associated with entrepreneurship in startup, social, creative, and corporate ventures.Entrepreneurship Programs
Miami University’s Entrepreneurship program offers a co-major, minor, and undergraduate certificates designed to equip you with the skills, mindset, and experiences to launch ideas and lead with impact.
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Minor
Graduate Program
Focus Areas and Startup
Focus Areas and Initiatives
The Department of Entrepreneurship is a distinctive, internationally-recognized program emphasizing undergraduate teaching excellence and immersive, real-world, hands-on learning opportunities.
Startup and Venture Capital
Our approach to startup entrepreneurship at Miami is real-world where students roll up their sleeves and start doing! We work alongside successful entrepreneurs locally, nationally, and around the world, and learn by doing.
Hands-On Learning
Every Farmer School student engages in hands-on learning through real-world projects, internships, consulting, and competitions, developing practical skills while working with actual business clients. These experiences begin in the First Year Integrated Core, where students apply their knowledge in team-based presentations to real businesses, gaining valuable collaborative and problem-solving experience.
Hands-On OpportunitiesEntrepreneurship News
Newly launched PILLARS app: a Q-and-A with founder Caleb Adelman ’24
The idea to create a civic engagement app to simplify politics got its start at Miami University’s Techstars Startup Weekend
Excellence and Expertise • Economic Impact • Student Success • Research and Innovation
First Founders Fair draws together college student entrepreneur community
Inaugural event brought student founders from 22 universities to Oxford
Student Success • Excellence and Expertise
FSB Venture Capital Investment Competition team ties for 2nd at Global Finals
Farmer School team last placed 2nd in 2024
Trio of FSB seniors earn President's Distinguished Achievement Awards
Awards honor graduating seniors whose sustained contributions have shaped the Miami community in substantial, meaningful, and enduring ways
Student Success • Excellence and Expertise • Oxford and Beyond
'I think we're going to do well' One team's journey through Social Innovation Weekend
Students from across Miami came together to identify problems and possible solutions around the topic of literacy
Excellence and Expertise • Student Success
FSB students continue winning tradition at Venture Capital Investment Competition
Team to compete in Global Finals in April
Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Miami University's Center for Social Entrepreneurship creates hands-on, experiential learning opportunities for undergraduates and strives to give students the tools they need to leave their mark on the world.
Altman Summer Internship Program
Altman Summer Scholars Internship Program at Miami University prepares the next generation of entrepreneurs, innovators, and startup employees. By partnering with some of the most innovative companies in the nation's fastest-growing entrepreneurial ecosystems, we support entrepreneurs by providing top talent and develop students by providing hands-on internship and co-op experiences where they are regarded as professionals, expected to add value and make an impact on day one.
Tech Entrepreneurship Fellowship and Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EiR) Programs
Tech Entrepreneurship Fellowship Program
The Tech Entrepreneurship Fellowship program (TechESP) combines two complementary programs into a single degree path, and provides special benefits to students who are accepted and enroll into the program.
Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EiR) Program
Miami University’s Department of Entrepreneurship established the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EiR) program to provide entrepreneurial mentorship, coaching, and support to Miami students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
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Support UsEntrepreneurship: Graduate Success at a Glance
$78,769
Average Total Compensation, Including Bonus
34%
of Students who Received a Full-time Offer Reported an Average Signing Bonus of $4,762
95%
of Graduates are Employed Full-time, Continuing their Education, Starting their Own Venture, Volunteering, in the Military, or Pursuing other Opportunities
1.57
Internships on Average, per Entrepreneurship Students
Shaping Learning Experience
Three key principles define how we shape the student learning experience:
Cross-Discipline Focus
Offer a co-major that requires students who pursue a degree in entrepreneurship to also major in another program and blends undergraduates from majors across campus in curricular and co-curricular programs that stimulate diversity in thought, decision-making, and action. During the 2017-2018 academic year, students from 114 of Miami’s 122 majors completed at least one entrepreneurship course last year, actively engaging students from the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Creative Arts, College of Engineering and Computing, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Education, Health, and Safety, and the Farmer School of Business.
Practice-Based Model
Entrepreneurship requires thinking and doing. For students to learn entrepreneurship, they must do entrepreneurial activities. Doing requires practice, and practice requires curricular and co-curricular programs that foster experiential learning. The Department of Entrepreneurship's practice-based model of learning incorporates play, empathy, creation, experimentation, and reflection into the design of curricular and co-curricular courses and programs. Specifically, students are immersed in team-based learning contexts that require them to apply knowledge accrued in the classroom through practice-based experiential assignments that require entrepreneurial decision-making and action.
Ecosystem Integrated
To foster an entrepreneurial mindset and understanding in our students, The Department of Entrepreneurship integrates curricular and co-curricular programs with ecosystem partners where thinking and doing takes place. During the 2017-2018 academic year, our students and student-led startups received mentoring, coaching and advice from more than 270 startup founders, angels and institutional investors, accelerator directors, social entrepreneurs, and others from across the U.S., including representatives from organizations like SVB, Cintrifuse, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Fifth Third Bank, and Flywheel Social Enterprise Hub, among many others.
Farmer School of Business Department of Entrepreneurship
2078 Farmer School of Business
800 East High Street
Oxford, OH 45056
