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College Entrepreneurs - Do You Have What It Takes?

Think you’re busy with classes, extracurricular activities, and partying? How about adding a business startup to the equation?

Being a young business owner seems to be the hip thing to do right now. More and more students are taking business risks while in college with the hopes of earning a big payoff. It’s no wonder that colleges are catering to this growing interest with sophisticated programs. Once taught only in the school of hard knocks, entrepreneurship is becoming a mainstream college subject. At some schools, entrepreneurial studies is a major, as fundamental to business education as accounting. More than 1,600 colleges and universities now offer programs in entrepreneurship.

The exact methods of teaching entrepreneurship vary from school to school, but most use a combination of learning methods