Entrepreneurship Certificate

Build Strategic Skills to Launch a New Venture

Grow businesses + lead startups

  • Take your business ideas and put them into action.
  • Gain the knowledge and skills you need to start companies and work in startup environments.
  • Expand your future possibilities, and bring new technologies and services to the world.

Innovate + impact society

  • Benefit from a curriculum steeped in creativity and innovation.
  • Learn to analyze the role of entrepreneurship in society.
  • Customize your certificate after taking just one required course, then select courses from a range of electives to meet your interests and goals.

The Certificate in Entrepreneurship is open to undergraduate students earning any nonbusiness degree at UW–Madison.

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Program Overview

15 total credits

9 credits of electives

(such as Managing Organizations, HR Management, Marketing in a Digital Age, Social Entrepreneurship)

1 required foundational entrepreneurship course (3 credits)

Choose 3 additional credits in advanced entrepreneurship

You can enhance your certificate experience by participating in non-credit entrepreneurship competitions and student organizations.

Once you complete all the certificate requirements, “Awarded Certificate in Entrepreneurship” will be notated on your official transcripts.

See the Undergraduate Guide for details

Advising

If you have questions about undergraduate certificates, email the School of Business undergraduate advising center at wibbaadvising@wsb.wisc.edu or call 608-262-0471.