To qualify for the certificate, you must be an admitted or current student at IU Indianapolis.
You must also:
- Complete nine credit hours of core certificate courses on the IU Indianapolis campus.
- Have a minimum grade point average of 2.0.
- Complete prerequisites for some courses.
Learn more about consumer information for this certificate program.
The certificate requires 12 undergraduate credit hours divided between a 9 credit hour core and 6 credit hours of electives. The core is composed of the following trio of courses, which build upon each other to take you from the initial entrepreneurial idea through launch of a venture.
The courses should be taken in order with W240 as a prerequisite to W250 and both W240 and W250 as prerequisites to W360.
| Course Number | Course Name | Credit Hours |
| W240 | Introduction to Entrepreneurship - Develop an understanding of the entrepreneurial mindset and the challenges and rewards that entrepreneurs face.
- Build knowledge related to how entrenpreneurs develop ideas into new products or services in the market to gain traction and generate customers.
- Generate multiple venture ideas, either in the context of an existing corporation or organization or for independent ventures.
- Collaborate with fellow students to complete a feasibility analysis on a new venture using both qualitative and quantitative techniques and present the results to others.
| 3 |
| W250 | Entrepreneurship: Venture Development - Perform intensive customer research, including interviews, surveys and data evaluation to understand and identify market needs.
- Communicate the key value drivers of a new venture idea and business model framework to a variety of potential stakeholders, including customers and users.
- Demonstrate the operational and financial feasibility of a venture and develop a high-level financial model for the concept.
- Understand the competitive landscape of a new venture idea and how it affects the overall new venture model.
| 3 |
| W360 | Entrepreneurship: "Road Show" - Communicate the essence of the business and elaborate on its success through an executive summary, business canvas and pitch or presentation.
- Demonstrate the operational and financial feasibility of the venture and develop a high-level financial model for the enterprise.
- Design and complete a validation plan that moves the venture from idea to minimally viable product and proof of concept.
- Produce and deliver entrepreneurial pitch of new venture to external stakeholders/potential investors.
| 3 |
Electives for Kelley Majors
Choose two Kelley School of Business courses from the following list of electives to complete the remaining 6 credit hours required for the certificate. The electives deliberately allow future inclusion of disciplinary-specific and industry-specific courses offered by other schools on the IU Indianapolis campus.
| Course Number | Course Name | Credit Hours |
| W430 | Organizations and Organizational Design | 3 |
| Z302 | Managing and Behavior in Organizations | 3 |
| Z443 | Developing Employee Skills | 3 |
| M303 | Marketing Research | 3 |
| M426 | Sales Management | 3 |
| M432 | Digital Marketing | 3 |
| F305 | Intermediate Corporate Finance | 3 |
| F402 | Corporate Financial Strategy and Governance | 3 |
| P330 | Project Management | 3 |
| P421 | Supply Chain Management | 3 |
| P320 | Supply Chain Management: Sourcing | 3 |
| P431 | Supply Chain Management: Logistics and Distribution | 3 |
Electives for Nonbusiness Majors
Choose two Kelley School of Business courses from the following list of electives to complete the remaining 6 credit hours required for the certificate. The electives deliberately allow future inclusion of disciplinary-specific and industry-specific courses offered by other schools on the IU Indianapolis campus.
| Course Number | Course Name | Credit Hours |
| A186 or A200 | Accounting & the Business Environment or Foundations of Accounting | 3 |
| F200 or F300 | Foundations of Financial Management or Introduction to Financial Management | 3 |
| M200 or M300 | Marketing & Society or Introduction to Marketing | 3 |
| P200 or P300 | Operations & Supply Chain Management or Introduction to Operations Management | 3 |
| Z200 or Z340 | Introduction to Human Resource Practices or Personnel: Introduction to Human Resources | 3 |
| D301 | International Business Environment
| 3 |
| Z302 | Managing and Behavior in Organizations | 3 |
| HER-V101 | Design Thinking 101 | 3 |
| HER-V472 | Wicked Problems and Sensemaking | 3 |
| HER-V473 | Design Methods for Framing Problems | 3 |
| HER-V482 | Design Methods for Ideating | 3 |
| HER-V483 | Design Methods for Prototyping | 3 |
| NEWM-N100 | Foundations of New Media | 3 |
| NEWM-N306 | Social Media Content, Analytics and Management | 3 |
| NEWM-N420 | Multimedia Project Development | 3 |
| INFO-H467 | Internet of Things Interface Design for Business Innovation | 3 |
