Bachelor of Science in Social Impact and Entrepreneurship

Major in your mission.

The revolutionary Bachelor of Science in Social Impact and Entrepreneurship from Lynn University, in collaboration with Watson Institute, is built for students to major in their mission, gain experience as interns with leading organizations in their field, and develop a skill set necessary to create impactful, successful careers.

Watson Institute at Lynn University in Boca Raton, FL, brings together a cohort of innovators, leaders, and entrepreneurs from across the globe to build careers that align with their values and contribute to solving the toughest challenges facing the world. Through interactive courses, intensive mentorship, and a powerful, diverse community of peers, students and alumni launch lives of impact.

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The Bachelor of Science in Social Impact and Entrepreneurship at Lynn University consists of hands-on, interactive courses that focus on a range of hard and soft skills critical to entrepreneurship and impact. As part of Lynn’s College of Business and Management, students will also take business courses, such as Project Management and Principles of Economics, and complete the nationally recognized Dialogues core curriculum.

The curriculum is geared towards preparing students with the skills and experience to design and lead impactful, successful careers. This one-of-a-kind program can be completed in as little as three years. Below you will find a sample of the kind of courses that students complete during the first year of the program:

Leap of Faith
The highly experiential Leap of Faith curriculum focuses on the soft skills and personal development at the core of Watson Institute’s curriculum including: courage, resilience, creativity, grit, leadership, and transformative communication. Transformative Action guides students through the process of overcoming key challenges faced during the process of building a venture and becoming transformative leaders. The course is based on the principles of the Transformative Action Institute and is highly interactive, experiential, and dynamic.

Apprenticing with a Problem
Apprenticing with a Problem is structured as a series of challenges that lead students to identify and create solutions and harness self identified growth areas to further advance their mission.

Impact Gap Canvas
Impact Gap Canvas helps students map the key organizations, initiatives, people, and efforts in their field.  Created by Daniela Papi-Thornton’s research, the Impact Gap Canvas is a tool used to understand the landscape of a problem identify gaps where individuals can contribute to a solution.

Transformative Entrepreneurship
Transformative Entrepreneurship is designed to equip students with the tools needed to build ventures. It focuses on foundational skills including: fundraising, finance, rapid prototyping, customer discovery, problem solving, and human centered design.

In addition to the courses outlined above, students join a tailored and interactive Impact Series from a seasoned entrepreneur or leader who is invited to campus each week.

We have the privilege to host some of the world’s foremost leaders, entrepreneurs, and practitioners to deliver Impact Series, 30 highly interactive workshops, and 1-on-1 mentorship sessions each year, with the Watson Scholars. Individuals who have led Impact Series in the past include: