A Lawrence Business & Entrepreneurship Major merges a liberal arts education with business skills to produce visionary leaders.


Students can combine the Business & Entrepreneurship major — with its focus on developing marketing, finance and accounting, data analytics, and computer science skills — and a second major they are passionate about (Music, Languages, Government, Psychology, Environmental Studies, etc.), to prepare themselves to launch a startup or become a changemaker in a field of their choice.

A rendering of Fox Commons, a living learning community where entrepreneurship majors study entrepreneurship in college, and earn a business and entrepreneurship degree.

Living-Learning Communities


Lawrence is forming strategic partnerships with community organizations to develop innovative living-learning spaces where students can collaborate with businesses and non-profits for hands-on experiential learning.

About Lawrence

Career Center | Chicago Business Trek

Open to ALL Lawrentian these Explore Treks provide a range of experiences, from the Chicago Business Trek to other industry-focused journeys and are designed to help students build their network, enhance their pre-professional skills, and discover their passions. 

From foundational business administration skills to music entrepreneurship, data science, and energy management, you’ll find your focus in the Business & Entrepreneurship Major.

Choose one of five focus areas: Entrepreneurship, Arts Entrepreneurship, Business Analytics, Global Business, and Natural Resource and Energy Management

Learn more about the Business & Entrepreneurship faculty.

Why Lawrence's Business and Entrepreneurship Major Program is the best

Dylan Geary '17 profile - Students like Dylan who are entrepreneurship majors and economics majors, study entrepreneurship in college, and earn a business and entrepreneurship degree, while building their own business consulting skill sets.

Alumni Perspective


"My job as a management consultant requires solving complex business problems, sometimes in areas where I know very little. Lawrence taught me how to research, learn topics quickly, and create structure around complexity which is exactly what my day to day requires."

Dylan Geary ’17, Associate at Kearney
Economics, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Chicago, Illinois

Innovation and Entrepreneurship students posing for picture with Gary Vaughn. Entrepreneurship majors, study entrepreneurship in college, and earn a business and entrepreneurship degree, while building their own business.

The Greater Good


Business is all about understanding and meeting human needs and wants. The Greater Good requirement brings perspectives from the Humanities and Ethics into the BUEN major.

AJ Ulwelling with Mr. Francis Mason, who is the founder of Conforti School in Freetown, one of the KidsGive partner school.  AJ is sharing with him some glasses, a donation that was part of the EyeGive project that emerged from my social entrepreneurship class between 2021 and 2022.

Experiential Learning


Whether through an internship in the US or abroad, or an on-campus practicum, the Business & Entrepreneurship major takes you outside the classroom.

A career community is a cluster of similar career paths grouped together to help you better explore your areas of interest.

The Chandler Senior Experience

The Business & Entrepreneurship Senior Experience seminar provides a bookend to the introductory Business and Society course. Through readings, discussions, and guest speakers, students will reflect on their learning in the classroom and through the experiential learning component.

Recent Senior Experience projects include:

  • Theatre Education in Appleton, Jamaica, and Sierra Leone
  • Reinvesting in the Social, Economic and Health Benefits of the Conservation Corps

Can you picture yourself at Lawrence? Apply for admission.

The best way to find out if Lawrence is the university for you is by visiting.

Your virtual tour starts at the Arch but be sure to check out Main Hall, to explore humanities learning spaces.

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