You can get a degree in entrepreneurship?

By: Luis A. Oviedo
Contributing Writer

A school based out of Phoenix, Ariz., called Grand Canyon University is soon going to be the first accredited school to open a college devoted solely to the study of being an entrepreneur.

There are campuses spread across the nation which offer courses in the subject, and it is one of the fastest-growing fields of study. However, no one has ever had the ability to major in how to opening and operating a personal business.

Everything is about to change because the new college with the idea of creating a school focused on training entrepreneurs for our business world is slated to open in January.

One of the courses slated to be offered is how to startup businesses and a club for those who attend the college called Club Entrepreneur. There will also be venture capital available to these students. The fund has $4.5 million in it for students to open what those in charge of the fund would call a “successful entrepreneurial project.”

This institution will cost students about $12,000 per year.

The question to be asked, however, is can people teach others how to be entrepreneurs? It has been a debate since the topic was introduced to the business schools of America. But, there are questions left: how do you teach risk, how do you teach how to be daring and charismatic and innovative?

This is something making many take a look at this school and what it is doing. The business world is extremely difficult to compete in, but does giving a major in this make your chances better? No research has been done on the effectiveness of these courses and how they can help the marketplace, but it still does not stop students from flocking to schools which offer these kinds of courses or similar course work.