There are many business minors available at Tufts, including the Entrepreneurship Minor, the Entrepreneurship for Social Impact Minor, as well as the Engineering Management Minor and the Business, Management, and Leadership Minor. The Economics Minor and the Finance Minor are also populay choices. Additionally, Fletcher School offers a Graduate Business Certificate with courses that are available to undergraduates students.

While all these options cover business concepts with different perspectives, the ENT Minor is specifically designed to help you understand the language of business, while building a bias for action. This minor gives you the tools to get things done. It focuses on building your ability and self-confidence to see and act on opportunities, identify problems worth solving, develop innovative solutions, learn what is needed along the way, and create change in any context.

Not at all. While some students do launch ventures, the entrepreneurial mindset is valuable everywhere. Our alumni lead innovation in large organizations, create change in nonprofits, and design programs in government. It’s about how you create opportunities from challenges, not where you work.

No experience needed! The introductory courses as well as the foundation course start with the basics. What matters is your curiosity and willingness to try new things. We’ll teach you the tools. You bring the ideas.

The minor is designed as a journey of discovery. Through projects and challenges, you’ll explore different ways to apply entrepreneurial thinking. Many students discover their path through the minor itself. You’re in the right place!

You can start any time! Some students take exploratory courses as a first-year student, then take the foundation course in their sophomore year. Many start in their sophomore or junior year. The curriculum is designed to fit alongside any major, with evening and flexible scheduling options

Exciting changes are coming for the ENT Minor effective from September 2022 onward! We are moving to more flexible requirements to allow students the opportunity to obtain a solid foundation in entrepreneurship along with the flexibility to pursue courses that align with students’ interests. These requirements are 100% backward-compatible with existing requirements, so students who are on track to earn the minor will not need to change their plans. Students who have not yet completed their minor requirements will have more flexibility to choose courses in their area of interest while receiving a solid foundation for the entrepreneurial method.

Yes, you can earn the minor without taking all the core courses. You only need to earn 12 credits — 6 of which need to be chosen from the core courses. That said, we strongly recommend all ENT students take at least one course in accounting or finance. For AY2022-23, if you elect not to take Entrepreneurial Finance (4 credits) — a must-have for students contemplating a career in investment banking or financial services in any capacity — you can choose to take EC3 Financial Accounting or EC 50 Introduction to Finance. For AY2023-24 and beyond, we anticipate introducing additional finance courses at an introductory level (2-3 credits) for entrepreneurial students.

ENT141 Innovative Social Enterprises will join the list of courses that satisfy the foundational course requirement.

In Fall 2026, ten new electives will expand your course options in data science, product design, marketing, and impact investment.

New approved electives starting Fall 2026:

• CEE132 | DS143 | ME173 Data Science for Sustainability
• DATA 0100 Introduction to Data Analytics
• EE181 Product Design & Innovation
• EE182 Product & Market Design – Imagination & Creativity
• FMS32 Introduction to Branding and Marketing
• FMS160 Advanced Branding Strategy
• UEP184 Fundamentals of ESG & Impact Investing
• UEP185 Impact Investing for Catalytic Impact: Filling Capital Gaps
• UEP186 Community based investing – systems and practices
• UEP187 Blended return: Impact investing measurement tools and processes

In addition to these new electives, we will continue to accept all courses from the Engineering Management (EM) Minor and the Business, Management, and Leadership (TML) Minor toward the Entrepreneurship Minor. This significantly expands the options for students with diverse interests to design their own path through the Entrepreneurship Minor.

Click here to view the ENT course lookup table (course names and numbers) for 2020–2026.

Yes — course name and number changes, or a course no longer being offered, don’t affect your progress toward the minor. Any ENT course offered from Fall 2020 onward, along with a small number of approved courses (currently one each from CS, EM, and BME), still counts toward one of the three requirement categories below.

Foundation — one of the following:

• Any ENT101 Entrepreneurship and Business Planning section
• ENT161 Consumer Product Ventures (previously ENT194.02)
• BME184 Biomedical Entrepreneurship and Strategy
• CS150 Entrepreneurship for Computer Science (previously ENT150)
• ENT141 Entrepreneurship for Social Impact (only if taken Spring 2024 or later, after a course redesign)

Core — any of the following:

• ENT103 Entrepreneurial Finance
• ENT105 Entrepreneurial Marketing
• ENT106 The Science of Sales
• ENT107 Entrepreneurial Leadership
• EM52 Engineering Leadership

Electives — any ENT course not used to satisfy your Foundation or Core requirement. Please note that we will not accept a second Foundation course as an elective.

Click here to view a full listing of all courses offered since Fall 2020 and check which requirement category your course satisfies.

We strongly discourage taking more than one course from the Foundation list, since a second Foundation course cannot be used to satisfy the elective requirement. All Foundation courses share core learning objectives — while the sector-specific variants (BME184, ENT141, ENT151, ENT161) apply that content to a different industry than ENT101, students consistently find the material repetitive. You’ll get more out of the minor by choosing a different course from our extensive elective list instead.

If you do take a second Foundation course, it will not count as an elective — meaning you’ll need to complete more than 5 courses total to earn the minor.

There are many business minors available at Tufts, including the Entrepreneurship Minor, the Entrepreneurship for Social Impact Minor, as well as the Engineering Management Minor and the Business, Management, and Leadership Minor. The Economics Minor and the Finance Minor are also populay choices. Additionally, Fletcher School offers a Graduate Business Certificate with courses that are available to undergraduates students.

While all these options cover business concepts with different perspectives, the ESI Minor gives you a mix of civic and political engagement balanced with practical business skills that helps you build solutions with an entrepreneurial approach.

Not at all. Social impact happens everywhere. Social enterprises span for-profit and non-profit business types. Some alumni launch social enterprises, and many others lead change within existing organizations—for profit organizations, nonprofits, government agencies. It’s about developing capabilities to drive positive change wherever you work.

Financial skills help social enterprises survive and grow—without cash, you can’t make a real impact. Money is simply a tool to power your mission, not a distraction from it. Learning finance means your ideas can reach more people and create lasting change.

You’re in the right place! Through coursework and community partnerships, you’ll explore different challenges and approaches. Many students discover their focus through the minor itself. The skills you develop apply to any social challenge.

Yes. ENT141 Entrepreneurship for Social Impact has additional learning outcomes and course topics and objectives that are focused on social enterprises. We recommend you start with ENT141 and take two additional courses that are not listed as an Entrepreneurship Minor Foundation Course to build a broad skillset.