Turn ideas into action and build the skills to lead, innovate, and make things happen. Whether you want to launch a venture, manage an organization, or create an academic path around your professional goals, these programs combine the versatility of a liberal arts education with practical preparation for the working world.
Explore business and entrepreneurialism at Iowa
Enterprise Leadership
Think like an entrepreneur and learn to lead in a changing business world. Combine entrepreneurship, business, communication, and leadership while tackling real-world challenges, working with organizations, and developing creative solutions that create value.
Sport and Recreation Management
Turn your passion for sports and recreation into a career behind the action. Explore the business of the industry while gaining hands-on experience in areas such as event management, marketing, sales, facilities, leadership, and organizational operations.
Why choose Iowa?
Great ideas need people who know how to move them forward. At Iowa, you can build the leadership, communication, problem-solving, and professional skills to turn opportunities into results—while benefiting from the broad perspective and flexibility of a liberal arts education.
Put those skills to work through consulting projects, internships, field experiences, professional connections, and other hands-on learning opportunities. Whether you see yourself starting a business, leading a team, working in the sport and recreation industry, or combining disciplines to pursue a particular career, you can shape an education that connects what you learn with what you want to accomplish.
Careers our graduates pursue
- Entrepreneur or business owner
- Business consultant
- Project manager
- Marketing professional
- Sales professional
- Account manager
- Business analyst
- Event manager
- Administrator
- Recreation program manager
- Facility or venue manager
- ...and many similar professions
