If funded, the entrepreneurship major would begin this fall. Response to the entrepreneurship track has been only lukewarm, however. A total of 15 students signed up last fall. We spent all the time getting the stuff established, not enough time getting the word out. Research shows that more than 50 percent of UND students want to start their own business at some point in their career, he said.
Few students know about the entrepreneurship track and major.
Faircloth is hoping this will change, once a plan to market the program to students is completed. A growing trend UND's entrepreneurship program is not the first in the nation, however. According to Faircloth, more than 100 schools across the country already offer an entrepreneurship program. Ten years ago, fewer than 100 Harvard students took entrepreneur classes, he said. Today, about eight times that number attend.