Certificate Program in Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship Certificate is a 16 week online program that explores the common challenges and universal concerns facing all types of small business owners today. It presents a rich set of solutions that gives business people a fresh perspective and tools to achieve sustainable success.

This program is offered as an online program, with a residential weekend component. The program can also be presented in a condensed version on weekends, either through licensee colleges or through IFE.

The certificate program is designed for various types of students

1. Everyday small business owners who need specific courses on entrepreneurship.
   
   
2. Trade professionals like carpenters, bookkeepers, plumbers, auto mechanics, and so forth who want to leave the role of employee and start their own shop or business.
   
   
3. Successful professionals in one arena who want to diversify by owning their own business. For example, sports professionals such as baseball, basketball and football players who want to invest their money in a business of their own when they retire from sports.
   
   
4. Students who have studied non-business curricula, such as science and technology, as their primary focus and now are ready to understand the challenge of business, commerce, and entrepreneurship to develop and protect their inventions and discoveries.

The Certification course is a combination of the weekend seminar program, online modules - viewing interactive multimedia presentations, reading texts, listening to podcasts, workbook assignments, viewing guest lectures, and participating in ongoing group online forum discussions regarding the various weekly topics. Personal and business assessment surveys are conducted at the beginning and again at the end of the course to track the student's progress and development of genuine entrepreneurial skills.