The Entrepreneurship Programme is situated within the Department of Management and Marketing. As part of the Bachelor of Business Studies degree programme, students are offered an 'Entrepreneurship' stream as an option. It covers three semesters during the third and fourth years of study. Business Consulting where student teams act as consultants, advising local enterprises. The University of Limerick undertakes postgraduate programmes of education and research to Doctorate level in the area of entrepreneurship.
Opportunities exist for taught and research based degree programmes in the field.
This one year, full-time programme focuses on assisting participants to identify and create businesses which are knowledge based, innovative in nature and have job creation and export potential. In year 2 the programme focuses on the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and practice. Components of the course include small business consulting and an advanced entrepreneurship thesis. An entrepreneurship course is offered as an elective module on the Executive and Corporate MBA programmes. Participants form teams of three or four persons and develop new business proposals.