Entrepreneurship vs Business Essentials: which business course first?

If you are new to business, start with Business Essentials (Business 100): its 24 chapters cover the economy, management, people, marketing, accounting and finance. Entrepreneurship (Business 310) focuses on starting and growing your own business. Neither lists a prerequisite, so you can also take Entrepreneurship first.

Business Essentials explains how a business works, one part at a time. Entrepreneurship is about creating one: spotting opportunities, innovation, pitching, marketing and sales, startup finance, business plans and legal structures. Both cover ownership, marketing, ethics and business structures.

Entrepreneurship: ACE recommends 3 semester hours at the upper-division level (ACE ID UPIS-0019), and NCCRS recommends 3 upper-division semester hours in Business, Entrepreneurship or Marketing. Business Essentials is NCCRS only: 3 lower-division semester hours in Business Essentials, Introduction to Business or Principles of Business.

Entrepreneurship: NCCRS recommends 3 semester hours, upper division, in Business among other subjects; ACE recommends 3 (ACE ID UPIS-0019). Business Essentials: NCCRS recommends 3 semester hours, lower division, in Business Essentials among other subjects.

Entrepreneurship: Business, Entrepreneurship, or Marketing. Business Essentials: Business Essentials, Introduction to Business, Principles of Business, Business Administration elective, or as an elective in Business Management. Your college decides which requirement each one fills.

Entrepreneurship: 16 chapters and 70 instructional hours. Business Essentials: 24 chapters and 69 instructional hours. Both are self-paced, so you finish as fast or as slow as you want.

Entrepreneurship: 100 multiple-choice questions, 50% of the grade. Business Essentials: 100 multiple-choice questions, 25% of the grade.

Entrepreneurship: NSCC Foundations of Entrepreneurship (remixed version of Entrepreneurship, OpenStax, 2020), Pressbooks, with other references. Business Essentials: Ebert, R. J., & Griffin, R. W. (2021). Business Essentials (13th ed.). Pearson, with other references.

Principles of Management. In the “Start in business” order on the Business courses page, it follows Business Essentials. Your program may set its own order.

You never forward it yourself. When Entrepreneurship reaches 100%, pay the $20 transcript on your Student Dashboard (www.upistudy.com/enrollments); after you pay, the dashboard takes you to the transcript request, you type in your college's transcript address, and UPI Study's registrar emails it there; a confirmation email follows. As an ACE course, it is also issued as a Credly badge.

Take it again: a failed Entrepreneurship final comes with one free retake (fail that and you restart the course). A passed final can be retaken too, but the original score stands; for quizzes, the average of your first two attempts counts.

ACE and NCCRS have over 2,100 cooperating colleges that will consider accepting credits; the final decision is with the universities. Search your school in Find My College and ask your registrar which courses Business 310 and Business 100 would count as. For the registrar: Entrepreneurship's NCCRS recommendation lists Business and Business Essentials's NCCRS recommendation lists Business Essentials.