Business Management-Entrepreneurship (AAB)
Stark State College's business management entrepreneurship program focuses on opportunity recognition, new venture start-up, and business growth, combining hands-on learning with insights from local entrepreneurs and business leaders. The degree can be completed fully online and is stackable with Stark State’s short-term entrepreneurship certificate and one-year entrepreneurship certificate, allowing credits from both certificates to apply directly toward the associate degree.
Major code: 2079 Business, Engineering, and Information Technologies Division Management, Marketing, and Culinary Arts Department
The catalog in force is assigned to students based on the academic year they first applied to the college, and changes only when students change their major or request the change in writing. Refer to Policy No. 3357:15-13-28.
2026-27 Catalog
Effective Summer 2026
Some courses listed within the program may require a prerequisite or co-requisite.
Pre/Co-requisites will be listed within each course hyperlink below.
Refer to Policy No. 3357:15-13-04 and 3357:15-13-05
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Technical | ||
| ACC130 | Business Law and Ethics | 3 |
| BUS121 | Business Administration | 3 |
| ENT120 | Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| ENT124 | Managing Entrepreneurial Growth | 3 |
| MGT223 | Business Decision Making | 4 |
| ENT225 | Global Entrepreneurialship | 3 |
| MGT121 | Principles of Management | 3 |
| MGT224 | Human Resource Management | 3 |
| MKT121 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| MKT221 | Sales | 3 |
| Non-technical | ||
| SSC101 | Student Success Seminar | 1 |
| ACC132 | Financial Accounting 1 | 4 |
| ACC133 | Managerial Accounting | 4 |
| BUS124 | Business Analysis | 3 |
| BUS221 | Microeconomics | 3 |
| BUS222 | Macroeconomics | 3 |
| COM121 | Effective Speaking | 3 |
| ENG124 | College Composition | 3 |
| ITD122 | Computer Applications for Professionals | 3 |
| or AOT226 | Spreadsheet - Microsoft Excel | |
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Quantitative Reasoning | ||
| Statistics 2 | ||
| College Algebra 2 | ||
| Select one (1) Arts & Humanities Elective | 3 | |
| Total Hours | 64-65 | |
- 1
Student may elect to take ACC121 Introduction to Accounting prior to taking this course.
- 2
MTH124 Statistics or MTH125 College Algebra should only be taken by students planning to transfer to a four-year institution.
Students completing this degree may be eligible to also receive an Entrepreneurship One-Year Certificate (2071) and an Entrepreneurship Career Enhancement Certificate (2072).
Full-time Student Advising Notes
Academic Advising
Students should make an appointment to see their advisor before registering for classes each semester. They should have prepared a completed registration form, including courses they wish to take, prior to this meeting.
Course Sequence
The semester-by-semester listing below provides the normal scheduling option for full-time associate degree students who plan to finish in two years.
| First Semester | Hours | |
|---|---|---|
| SSC101 | Student Success Seminar | 1 |
| BUS121 | Business Administration | 3 |
| ITD122 or AOT226 |
Computer Applications for Professionals or Spreadsheet - Microsoft Excel |
3 |
| BUS124 | Business Analysis | 3 |
| ENG124 | College Composition | 3 |
| ENT120 | Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| ENT124 | Managing Entrepreneurial Growth | 3 |
| BUS221 | Microeconomics | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Quantitative Reasoning | ||
| Statistics 2 | ||
| College Algebra 2 | ||
| MGT121 | Principles of Management | 3 |
| ACC132 | Financial Accounting 1 | 4 |
| Hours | 16-17 | |
| Third Semester | ||
| MGT224 | Human Resource Management | 3 |
| COM121 | Effective Speaking | 3 |
| MKT121 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| ACC133 | Managerial Accounting | 4 |
| Arts Humanities Elective | 3 | |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Fourth Semester | ||
| MGT223 | Business Decision Making | 4 |
| ACC130 | Business Law and Ethics | 3 |
| BUS222 | Macroeconomics | 3 |
| MKT221 | Sales | 3 |
| ENT225 | Global Entrepreneurialship | 3 |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Total Hours | 64-65 | |
Arts & Humanities Electives
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ENG233 | British Literature: Medieval to 1785 | 3 |
| ENG234 | British Literature: 1785 to Present | 3 |
| ENG235 | Introduction to Shakespeare | 3 |
| ENG236 | American Literature: Colonial to 1865 | 3 |
| ENG237 | American Literature: 1865 to Present | 3 |
| ENG240 | Women's Literature | 3 |
| ENG241 | Major Modern Writers | 3 |
| HIS121 | United States History I to 1877 | 3 |
| HIS122 | United States History II from 1877 | 3 |
| PHL122 | Ethics | 3 |
Program Learning Outcomes
This program is designed to prepare students to demonstrate the following learning outcomes:
- Describe and analyze patterns of organizational behavior within contemporary organizations and apply management skills, human relations skills and motivational methods to create and maintain a positive work environment.
- Apply appropriate mathematical, statistical and other quantitative and business methods to analyze business situations.
- Demonstrate and apply professionalism, teamwork, and written and oral communications skills.
- Utilize specialized business skills in the areas of marketing, entrepreneurship, business development, operations, economics, as applicable, to understand businesses and how they interact with stakeholders inside and outside the organization.
- Formulate goals and strategies to analyze the internal and external environment of business and demonstrate proficiency with developing strategies to identify and solve organizational problems for new and existing businesses.