Build a solid foundation for your business idea. Stark State's Short-Term Entrepreneurship Certificate covers core business planning, marketing, and finance. Take classes that directly apply to the associate degree in business management entrepreneurship.
Major code: 2072
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
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Hours |
| BUS121 | Business Administration | 3 |
| ENT120 | Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| ENT124 | Managing Entrepreneurial Growth | 3 |
| ENT225 | Global Entrepreneurialship | 3 |
| Total Hours | 12 |
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.
Plan of Study Grid
| First Semester |
|---|
| ENT120 |
Entrepreneurship |
3 |
| BUS121 |
Business Administration |
3 |
| | Hours | 6 |
| Second Semester |
|---|
| ENT124 |
Managing Entrepreneurial Growth |
3 |
| ENT225 |
Global Entrepreneurialship |
3 |
| | Hours | 6 |
| | Total Hours | 12 |
The classes in this certificate also apply toward the completion of an Entrepreneurship One-Year Certificate and a Business Management - Entrepreneurial Major (2079).
Program Learning Outcomes
This program is designed to prepare students to demonstrate the following learning outcomes:
- 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.
- 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.
