What happens after entrepreneurship students graduate? Exploring the early career outcomes of graduates

Elena Dowin Kennedy, David L. Brannon, Graham Henshaw and Kathleen Powell

Chapter 12 in Annals of Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy - 2025, 2025, pp 228-248 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter leverages survey data from 442 early career alumni from three universities to examine the professional roles and essential professional competencies needed for those roles to better understand the early career experiences of entrepreneurship alumni compared to their peers. The most common roles for entrepreneurship were in operations, marketing and sales, and boundary spanning positions, and the most common employer profiles were large professional services or technology firms. The authors found that a higher number of entrepreneurship alumni were in boundary spanning and supervisory roles when compared to their peers. Entrepreneurship alumni also report higher levels of income generation outside their primary roles. The study identifies interesting similarities and key differences in the competencies valued by entrepreneurship alumni in comparison to their peers and highlights how entrepreneurship education is currently contributing to the development of human capital in students and opportunities for more intentional development.

Keywords: Business and Management; Teaching Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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