LDS Business College set to launch entrepreneurship program
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This fall, LDS Business College in Salt Lake City will launch an entrepreneurship program with ties to accounting and sales.
"We did a study last spring of our students and prospective students and surveyed them on particular areas of interest for certificate and degree programs," said Professor Scott Newman, the program's director. "Entrepreneurship came out number one. Based on that we decided, 'Let's focus on entrepreneurship.' "
At another Church-affiliated business school, BYU's Marriott School of Management, the entrepreneurship program plays an integral role in putting its parent institution on the cutting edge of business education.
"The study and practice of entrepreneurship," said Gary C. Cornia, dean of the Marriott School, "is so important that a world-class business school must have an entrepreneurship program as part of its curricula."
The LDSBC entrepreneurship series is an emphasis of the college's associate of applied science business degree; it includes a two-year business degree in entrepreneurship as well as one-year certificates in accounting and professional sales. The series will teach students how to start a new business, work from home, or transition from business management to ownership.
"A large group of students out there, traditional and non-traditional, will benefit from this program," Brother Newman said. "Those who know what they want will be better equipped with a deeper array of courses, and those who don't know can be better educated to make sound decisions."
