Food & Beverage Entrepreneurship (BS)

The Food & Beverage Entrepreneurship bachelor’s degree program provides Baking & Pastry Arts, Culinary Arts and other associate degree graduates with the business skills necessary to open their own businesses and/or work in a management capacity at an existing food- or beverage-related venture.

Upon completion of the program, graduates are expected to:

Evaluate human, financial and other resources in the entrepreneurial ecosystem that support or inhibit new ventures.
Communicate effectively to diverse audiences, regarding different purposes and situations, through a variety of professional methods.
Apply ethical principles in response to common entrepreneurial decisions and challenges.
Develop a business plan for an innovative product or service in a food or beverage-related market.
Analyze the sources of funding available for food and beverage-related ventures and use decision support tools to determine effective structures for early-stage investments.
Graduates receive training from an integrated mix of custom entrepreneurial courses and business classes to build the necessary business knowledge-base to capitalize on their skills and passions. Opportunities also exist for students to study abroad. The university’s faculty advising system helps guide and facilitate student choices.

Graduates are better prepared to both operate their own business and act as a proponent of intrapreneurship within existing organizations. An integrated mix of custom entrepreneurial courses, business classes, and extensive experiential opportunities (inside and outside of classes) prepares students for their careers as business starters and/or corporate intrapreneurs in an extensive variety of industries. Typically students enter in these varied career paths as junior managers-in-training for more responsible management positions.