University of Virginia, BS, Entrepreneurship Track

What Is a Track? A track is a specialty area of study crossing over multiple concentration areas. Courses taken to satisfy track requirements can also be used to satisfy concentration requirements. Commerce students may complete up to two tracks if course scheduling allows this flexibility. Due to resources, the McIntire School cannot guarantee the fulfillment of tracks. Overview The purpose of the Entrepreneurship Track, like that of the Entrepreneurship Minor, is to prepare students to play crucial roles in the new venture community--whether as founders, investors, policy makers, technologists, general executives, or otherwise. Our hope is that via these new ventures, graduates will have a positive impact upon the world in which we live, thereby creating value of all kinds. Through case discussions, workshops, guest speakers, and team projects, the track's coursework provides an education in and experience with the tools, techniques, and transformations involved in new venture development (e.g., ideation and innovation, team building, product-market fit, venture viability and diligence, financial and social return, legal dynamics). The Entrepreneurship Track provides a select number of Commerce students with the unique opportunity to: explore the professional processes, concepts, communities, and tools that facilitate new-venture success; examine the sources of financing for a new venture; evaluate a start-up's ability to not only be financially sustainable, but also generate compelling financial and/or social returns; and apply these principles through practical application via new ventures and teams. The coursework includes lectures, case discussions, short-form pitches and long-form presentations, viability assessments, mock negotiations, venture simulations, guest speakers, and team projects.