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The New Entrepreneurship Programme – to Start September 2011

In September 2011, Wittenborg Business School will launch its new Bachelor programme in Entrepreneurship, the EBA

This new Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)  programme is for business students who want to test their entrepreneurial skills from the start and features the ''Apprentice Weeks'' (six times a year), a formula based on the concept of the  BBC’s The Apprentice, in which young professionals compete in teams by carrying out entrepreneurial tasks. Interested? Contact us for more information.

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The programme is aimed at business students who aspire to work independently, and have a feel for innovation and entrepreneurship. This translates itself into students’ ambitions to start their own – or take over an – entrepreneurial business, yet also into aims to become intrapreneurs within organizations, either commercial or public. The EBA programme will provide graduates with the skills and competencies to achieve this.

The programme is positioned according to the concept that business is innovation driven and that the entrepreneurs of tomorrow should be supported through continuing education (Life Long Learning), which is in line with the EU drive to promote entrepreneurship and the support of SMEs. At regional, national and global levels the employability of business people is enhanced by the broad skills and competencies they learn from business administration programmes, and the EBA adds a valuable entrepreneurial dimension to this.

In combination with a business administrator’s knowledge base encompassing all domains of business (marketing, management, communication, information and finance), the skills and competencies focused upon in Wittenborg’s EBA programme (sales and lead management, leadership, motivating teams, strategic thinking, and multi tasked focusing) will enable graduates to enter professions as independent entrepreneurs or supporting intrapreneurs.

The EBA will differ significantly from the International Business Administration programme in that from the very start, students are introduced to mini business projects – which means more practical business application from the very start of the programme – on a regular basis, and that the choice of modules in the programme have a greater emphasis on innovation, sales and leadership.

The EBA programme is aimed at international students worldwide, as well as Dutch students with an international background and outlook, who are looking for a BBA with an accent on entrepreneurial business. FIBBA accreditation for the EBA programme is in progress. The FIBBA Accreditation Panel will visit Wittenborg Business University in January 2011, right before the new enrollment date in February.