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BAYLOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM

 

Baylor University

Waco, Texas

 

 

Contact Information

Baylor University

John F. Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship

One Bear Place #98011

Waco, Texas  76798-8011

 

(ph) 254-710-6150

(fax) 254-710-3724

(web) http://www.baylor.edu/business/entrepreneur

 

 

Program Overview

 

Since it was established in 1977, the Baylor Entrepreneurship Program has been a world wide leader in entrepreneurship education and research.  Over the past 31 years, the Program has garnered national recognition and received many awards for its innovative style, the quality of its faculty, and its rigorous programs. 

 

While the breadth and depth of initiatives aimed at serving our many different constituents continues to expand dramatically, the underlying purpose of our program has remained constant.  That is, we seek to foster in all of our students the entrepreneurial spirit by providing them the tools and skills needed to build profitable entrepreneurial companies, while simultaneously encouraging them to reflect on the core values and ethics that are important in building a meaningful life.

 

The Baylor Entrepreneurship Program is housed in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship in the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University.  Baylor is the oldest University in the State of Texas, and is home to over 14,000 students.  3000 of these students are enrolled in the Hankamer School of Business in either an undergraduate or graduate program.    

 

 

Baylor Entrepreneurship Program by the numbers:

 

• More than 1000 Baylor entrepreneurship major alumni

 

• More than 150 students currently majoring in entrepreneurship.

 

• 15 credit undergraduate major, with five distinct concentrations in:

 

                  - Technology entrepreneurship

                  - International entrepreneurship

                  - Corporate entrepreneurship

                  - Social entrepreneurship

                  - Family Business

 

• An Entrepreneurship Minor offered to non-business students

 

• An Entrepreneurship Certificate program for engineering students

 

• More than 1000 business students/year taking at least one entrepreneurship course

 

• $160,000 in annual scholarships offered to students majoring in entrepreneurship

 

• 17 entrepreneurship courses offered at the undergraduate level

 

• 9 entrepreneurship courses offered at the graduate level

 

• 4 international entrepreneurship five-week study abroad programs offered each year: 

 

                  -  The European Entrepreneurship Experience

                  -  Technology Entrepreneurship in China

                  -  Social Entrepreneurship: Microfinancing and Economic Development in Africa

                  -  Entrepreneurship in the Dominican Republic

 

• 2 entrepreneurship courses offered at the Executive MBA level

 

• An Entrepreneurship Track for engineering students

 

• An “Entrepreneurship and Creative Leadership” course offered to non-business freshman students from all parts of the university

 

 

Faculty and Research

 

• 9 tenured or tenure-track entrepreneurship faculty

 

• A leading entrepreneurship journal housed – Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (editor – Ray Bagby)

 

• 9 endowed entrepreneurship chairs or professorships

 

• #1 ranked entrepreneurship textbook by volume “Small Business Management: Launching and Growing Entrepreneurial Ventures” 15ed.  (Longenecker, Moore, Petty, and Palich)

 

• 1 entrepreneurship clinical professor

 

• 2 staff program directors

 

• 2 entrepreneurship adjunct professors

 

• 3 entrepreneurship faculty fellows in engineering and theater arts

 

• 2 administrative assistants

 

• 1 entrepreneur-in-residence (Bill Townsend; Lycos founder, Youthstream Media Networks founder, VP Business Development at Deja News (now Google and Ebay).

 

 

 

Student Programs and Organizations

 

• 200 students housed in the Entrepreneurship Living and Learning Center – an on-campus residential living facility dedicated solely to housing entrepreneurship students.

 

• 10 alumni mentoring programs

 

• 1 on-campus student business incubator

 

• 1 Venture Associates Group (graduate internship program with practicing VCs)

 

• 1 Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization

 

• 1 Students in Free Enterprise organization

 

• 10 entrepreneurship students on the Entrepreneurship Student Advisory Board

 

• 2 business plan competitions with over $20,000 in prizes awarded

 

 

Outreach/Alumni/Community Entrepreneurship Programs

 

• 1 on-campus new venture business incubator for practicing entrepreneurs

 

• Home to the nationally-recognized John F. Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship (established and funded in 1980).

 

• 250 new venture concept evaluations conducted annually (for practicing entrepreneurs nationwide) by the Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship.

 

• 1 Angel fund and network

 

• 19^th year of awarding the Texas Family Business of the Year Award

 

• 1 Annual Entrepreneurship Alumni symposium

 

• Home to the Institute for Family Business

 

 

 

Other Relevant Metrics/Rankings

 

• $6.5 million in current and deferred gifts received in the past 18 months

 

•  1 “National Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year - 2008” – Bill Petty, Awarded by the Acton Foundation

 

• #5 - #14 recent entrepreneurship program rankings by U.S. News

 

• #3 - #24 recent entrepreneurship rankings by Entrepreneur Magazine

 

• Top 25 (no specific ranking) undergraduate entrepreneurship programs – Fortune Small Business

 

• Top 6 Family Business Programs - Fortune Small Business