Syracuse University is one of the few schools in the nation with a formal academic department devoted to entrepreneurship, reflecting the University’s strong commitment to the discipline. While other SU colleges and schools also have entrepreneurial areas and activities, the major academic programs in entrepreneurship are housed within Whitman’s Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises (EEE). Consistently ranked as one of the top entrepreneurship programs in the nation, the EEE department enables students to harness the resources available to them at SU and achieve entrepreneurial success.

The goal of the award-winning EEE department is to help students discover their innate entrepreneurial potential, and to give them a set of tools and perspectives to capitalize on that potential. Graduates of the EEE program:

• Start their own ventures
• Work in fast-growth, innovative firms
• Take over family-owned companies
• Buy a business or acquire a franchise
• Become corporate entrepreneurs, pursuing entrepreneurial ideas and concepts in larger, established organizations
• Become social entrepreneurs, creating new non-profit enterprises or social inventions that create value by addressing societal needs in new and different ways
• Embrace entrepreneurship in the public sector
• Or bring an entrepreneurial perspective to another discipline

In collaboration with the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship, the EEE department combines a highly unique set of entrepreneurship courses with a number of extracurricular activities and experiential opportunities to give students the total entrepreneurship experience. During their time at Whitman, entrepreneurship students are encouraged to build a portfolio of accomplishments, including:

• business plans
• consulting projects with a small firm
• business model development
• marketing invention designs
• entrepreneurial audits
• and participation in a business plan competition