Ignite Your Vision: Build Startups, Drive Innovation, and Lead Next-Generation Enterprises
Great ideas require a roadmap to become reality. The modern marketplace values dynamic builders who can scale ideas, navigate regulatory landscapes, and lead with purpose. The Business Administration, New Venture & Entrepreneurship, B.S.B.A. at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine is an immersive, on-campus undergraduate program engineered to turn creative thinkers into high-performing founders, builders, and business leaders.
This comprehensive major blends classic administrative mechanics with agile startup strategies. Based on our beautiful lakeside campus in Standish, Maine, you will master the diverse, cross-functional expertise required to build an independent brand from scratch, optimize a growing family business, or drive internal corporate innovation (“intrapreneurship”). Our problem-based curriculum is designed to inspire lifelong learning, equipping you with a premium competitive edge for a rewarding, long-term career in entrepreneurial business.
Our campus group brings together a high-energy group of collaborative problem solvers who want to back up their creative drive with real-world business skills.
Academic Strengths & Success Traits:
Executive Director of the Business School
Assistant Professor, Business Administration
Associate Professor of Business
To graduate, students must complete 120 total semester-hour credits, balancing our foundational business administration block, specialized entrepreneurship core courses, and the liberal arts core curriculum. Explore the full curriculum and requirements in the course catalog.
Core Business Administration Courses (44 Credits)
Establish a strong operational and administrative baseline across every functional area of business:
New Venture & Entrepreneurship Major Core (24 Credits)
Dive directly into the legal, financial, and strategic toolkits required to launch and scale a business:
Saint Joseph’s College offers rolling admissions for undergraduate on campus programs, allowing you to apply at any time during the year. We recommend applying before November 15 to make your decision process seamless and ensure you’re ready for New Student Orientation in June. Applying to college doesn’t have to be overwhelming, our new, free Direct Admit Program simplifies the process for qualified high school seniors with a 3.0+ cumulative GPA, skipping typical application hurdles to relieve stress for students, families, and counselors alike. Click here to learn more.
“My classes have provided me with an advanced foundation of knowledge and skills that are directly applicable to the tasks I’ve performed during my internship. With an amazing opportunity at Harvard University Athletics, I have enhanced my abilities within the sports media field, while applying the genuine concepts Saint Joseph’s College has provided me.”
Business + Sport Management
“I was fortunate enough to have an internship at Florence Bank in their Residential Mortgage and Commercial Loan Credit departments where I was assessing borrower risk and creditworthiness, applying methods I have learned in my accounting courses as well as my finance courses to pull ratios and analyze personal and business financial statements.”
Double major: Accounting + Finance
Our curriculum maps directly to four core professional capabilities, ensuring you graduate ready to impact organizational performance from day one:
A BSBA in New Venture & Entrepreneurship provides versatile, high-demand skills such as venture valuation, risk analysis, and innovation design that translate immediately to these fields:
An entrepreneur builds a brand-new venture or independent small business from the ground up, managing the initial valuation, legal structure, and initial launch phase. An intrapreneur applies that exact same innovative, agile mindset within an established corporation or non-profit, leading new product development, managing brand expansion, or modernizing outdated operational systems. Our curriculum provides the tools to succeed on either track.
At SJC, we value real-world experience. If you are already running a small business, managing a local community venture, or working on a planned innovation project, you can partner with a faculty sponsor to turn that work into an academic portfolio. Once approved, this portfolio can earn you 3 to 4 credits toward your core curriculum requirements, giving you a highly customized and flexible path to graduation.
Yes. Modern entrepreneurship relies heavily on data and digital strategy. Through core major courses like Leading Innovation (MG 350) and Introduction to Marketing (MK 201), you will learn how to leverage big data, modern analytics software, and emerging tools like Artificial Intelligence (AI) to validate market demand, track consumer behavior, and make evidence-based business decisions.
Get started today. Schedule a campus visit or begin your SJC undergraduate application. Connect with admissions to explore our fast-track MBA pipeline.
