Baruch College is within easy reach of Wall Street, Midtown, and the global headquarters of major companies and firms giving students unparalleled internship, career, and networking opportunities. Some of the city’s top executives are Baruch alumni, and many of them regularly come to campus to share their expertise with current students. Baruch College’s 15,500 students, who speak 110 languages and come from 160 countries, have been repeatedly named the most ethnically diverse student body in the United States.

Entrepreneurship Degree:
Whether a micro business, small-to-medium size business or a family business; the business issues faced are often the same.  Regardless of the entrepreneur’s motivation, Baruch’s entrepreneurship degrees programs are designed to cover the full range of these issues and prepare the student for his or her entrepreneurial career. Moreover, because most business growth takes place with new and smaller businesses, some of the greatest employment opportunities will be among entrepreneurial ventures.  Even larger companies seek self-starters, capable of taking responsibility for themselves and their divisions.  To prepare graduates to take advantage of these opportunities, Baruch offers a full range of courses in this Entrepreneurship field of study.

The Entrepreneurship faculty within the Department of Management at Baruch College maintains and manages the BBA in Entrepreneurship and MBA in Entrepreneurship degrees along with the newly created MS in Entrepreneurship.

Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship:
Within the Field Programs, the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship is a model of entrepreneurship education built around the collaboration of an institution of higher education, government, and the private sector. Faculty and students from the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch SBDC Business Advisors, Baruch College alumni, and volunteer professionals are brought together to support the entrepreneurial endeavors of college faculty and students as well as start-up and established businesses. Field Mentors—drawn from the Zicklin School of Business faculty and offering expertise in such areas as accounting, law, marketing, management, finance, and human resource management—work with the Baruch SBDC’s clients.

Baruch Entrepreneurial Network (BEN):
BEN is a joint effort between the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship and Baruch College’s Executives on Campus (EOC) program, in support of the Baruch College & Merrill Lynch Entrepreneurship Competition. The program is designed to assist students who have reached the final round of the competition in developing and launching their businesses. BEN draws on Field Center resources and business professionals from EOC. The program aims to foster an entrepreneurial spirit within the Baruch community. Services provided by BEN include assisting teams with strategic direction, helping teams network with the business and financial community, and preparing teams for angel or private equity funding

BEN’s goal is to help students develop successful, bankable, and scalable businesses. BEN mentors—entrepreneurs and seasoned business executives from the EOC program—provide students with their practical, real-world perspectives and offer ideas to help finalists develop and/or launch their businesses.

MGT 3960 Entrepreneurship Management:
This course is intended to provide the student with a mix of theoretical and practical knowledge about small businesses. Ideas, concepts, and philosophies representing a logical unfolding of the salient topics of the subject area are presented in lecture form. Related case work is employed to allow an opportunity to apply the principles learned in typical situations, a "what to do" and "how to do it" approach to small business management.

MGT 4961 Entrepreneurial Experiences:
This course offers BBA students the opportunity to learn from case studies why and how some businesses are successful while others fail. Lectures will focus on specific entrepreneurs and their businesses. Students will determine the characteristics, environment, and strategy required for success. Guest entrepreneurs will be invited to speak, and their business ventures analyzed. Teams of students will present one of the cases to the class; each student will also write an analysis of one of the other cases that is presented in class. The course will cover the full range of relevant issues from conception and startup phase, financial issues, valuation techniques, and exit strategies. Special issues such as ethical considerations, not-for-profit sector entrepreneurship, and turnaround management will also be addressed.

MGT 4962 Family Business Management:
The course offers students the opportunity to explore introductory family business issues such as business formation, growth and expansion, strategic management, professionalization, succession, location choices, and family dynamics, conflicts, and relationships relative to the business. An overview of families who own businesses and the profiles of their businesses will be presented along with the examination of the course topics relative to the various stages of business activity, including feasibility, start-up, on-going maintenance, expansion or redirection, and exit or transfer. The content of the course will include lectures, case studies, and group project work and presentations.

MGT 4963 Entrepreneurial Startups:
The purpose of this course is to take students through the process of initiating a business venture from the conceptualization phase to the preparation of a detailed and realistic business plan. While the course will provide an overview of issues such as entrepreneurship itself and the entrepreneurial character, its main focus is on specific issues, stages, and the process of developing a new business. Each student will be required to produce a detailed business plan. Students present their business plans to the class for feedback and critique.

The following is a list of undergraduate majors (http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/programs/undergrad/) available through the Zicklin School of Business.

  • Accounting
  • Computer Information Systems
  • Economics
  • Finance and Investments
  • Industrial/Organizational Psychology
  • Management - Entrepreneur Management
  • Management - Human Resource Management
  • Management - Operations Management
  • Marketing Management
  • Quantitative Methods and Modeling
  • Real Estate

Find out more about the BBA in Entrepreneurship:
http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/programs/undergrad/degrees/management/entrep.html/

Find out more about the MS in Entrepreneurship:
http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/programs/graduate/ms/degrees/ms-entrepreneurship.html

Find out more about the MBA in Entrepreneurship: http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/programs/graduate/mba/majors/management/entrepreneurship.html/

Entrepreneur Magazine and the Princeton Reveiw: 9th in nation for Undergraduate Programs (2009)

Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Award for Exceptional Contribution to Entrepreneurship Research (2008)

US News & World Report:

  • #36 overall in its list of best master-degree granting institutions in the north, and #6 among best master-degree granting public colleges in the region “America’s Best Colleges: 2009”. (2009)
  • Zicklin’s undergraduate business program ranked again among the top 50 nationally - moving up in this ranking in 2006.  The undergraduate business program was also ranked among the top 30 of public institutions. (2005)
  • Zicklin's undergraduate business program joins top 50 business programs nationally in "America's Best Colleges: 2005". (2004)
  • Baruch is one of three public colleges in New York State with undergraduate admissions rated as "more selective." (2000)
  • Baruch ranks first for ethnic diversity among U.S. institutions of higher education, "America's Best Colleges: 2005". (2004)

 

School type: Four Year, Public, Founded: 1919

Affiliation: None

Web site: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/

Student Profile:

Number of undergraduate, full-time students:
8,363

Percentage of undergraduate, full-time male students, female students:
48% Male; 52% Female.

Number of states represented by student body:
88% - New York City; 9% New York outside NYC; 3% - New Jersey

Number of countries represented by student body:
160

Percentage of international students:
13.5%

Percentage of minority students:
63%

Number of students participating in entrepreneurship:
4,600 undergraduates

Faculty Profile:

Number of full-time faculty:
501

Student/Faculty Ratio:
19:1

Athletics:

Athletics division, conference, number of varsity sports:
NCAA Division III, CUNY AC, 14 varsity sports.

Financial:

Cost of tuition:
Undergraduate - In - State $4,000 Undergraduate Out of State $11,000

Percentage of students who receive some financial aid:
85% of undergraduates

Professor Edward Rogoff, Chairman Department of Management
Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business
One Bernard Baruch Way, Box B9-240
New York, New York 10010

Edward.Rogoff@baruch.cuny.edu

Professor Ramona Zachary
Faculty Advisor in Entrepreneurship
Department of Management

(646) 312-3649

Ramona.Zachary@baruch.cuny.edu