Full enterprise lifecycle, not a single business-plan project
Opportunity → validation → venture → growth → governance → succession → scale → wealth → legacy, taught as a coherent four-year progression rather than a series of disconnected courses.
Who will build the businesses, transform the family enterprises, and govern the capital of India's next generation — not just manage what already exists?
How do you train a founder's instincts, a governance discipline, and an investor's eye in the same four years?
The BMS (Hons.) Entrepreneurship & Family Business at WPU GŌA is Enterprise Creation and Transformation — explicitly not a generic entrepreneurship degree. It is designed as a high-intensity anchor for founders, next-generation family-business leaders, intrapreneurs and venture/capital professionals, structured around a full lifecycle: opportunity, validation, venture, growth, governance, succession, scale, wealth, legacy.
As one of WPU GŌA's Transdisciplinary, Technological, and Transformative programmes, the degree is built around a philosophy of "Build before you manage — Govern before you inherit — Scale with discipline — Think globally, build locally — Create enduring value," using Goa's tourism, hospitality, food, pharma and real-estate sectors as live enterprise cases while building national and international careers and capital networks.
The Programme
A four-year BMS (Hons.) / With Research progression, building from personal and family-enterprise foundations through to boardroom governance and wealth:
- Year 1: mindset, family dynamics, economics, finance and ethics
- Year 2: functional core, Mittelstand, global entry, digital and ESG
- Year 3: Shinise, succession, VC/PE, family offices and international study
- Year 4: boardroom governance, M&A, resilience, research, risk, AI and wealth
Healthcare Management is explicitly out of scope for this programme. The authoritative intake is confirmed at 60.
Why Choose BMS (Hons.) Entrepreneurship & Family Business at WPU GŌA
Golf Hours — recurring social-fluency training every semester
Not a one-off: presence and composure, reading unstructured conversation, negotiation in informal settings, sustained networking practice, etiquette as a power skill — repeated every semester across all four years.
Venture Creation Studio
A four-year progressive venture build, not a single capstone project — opportunity, ideation, validation, venture, growth, governance, succession, scale, wealth, legacy.
Family Business Lab
Real enterprise analysis — family business treated as a systematic discipline, rare at undergraduate level in India.
Investor & Capital Markets Exposure
VC, PE and family-office interaction from both the founder's and the investor's side.
Entrepreneur-in-Residence model
Recurring masterclasses from practising founders and operators.
Next-Generation Enterprise Clinic
Succession and governance mentoring specifically for students from business families.
A nine-item business portfolio as the output, not a transcript
Venture concept, business model, research, financial model, industry project, transformation project, international report, final project and simulation record — a tangible portfolio rather than grades alone.
Human Performance & Longevity campus
Every student is part of WPU GŌA's positioning as India's first Human Performance and Longevity Campus.
Programme Structure
1. Common Core (40 Credits)
Universal requirement for all WPU GŌA students, developing ten essential graduate attributes and transversal skills across disciplines.
2. Management Foundation & Programme Core
Year 1 mindset, family dynamics, economics, finance and ethics through to Year 4 boardroom governance, M&A, resilience, research, risk, AI and wealth — see The Programme for the full four-year progression.
3. Specialisation Focus
The programme is itself a single specialisation — Entrepreneurship & Family Business — rather than a track selected from several.
4. Experiential Architecture
Applied learning runs alongside the academic core throughout the degree:
- Family Business Lab
- Venture Creation Studio
- Next-Generation Enterprise Clinic
- Investor & Capital Markets Exposure
- Entrepreneur-in-Residence
- A dual-track final project
5. Capstone & Signature Work
The final year (Industry Track 2, Semester 8) produces the capstone after a five- to six-month placement in an enterprise, venture, family business or research setting. A Semester VI Study Tour Capstone — the Global Enterprise & Family Business Study — runs alongside it.
Specialisations
A single-track programme
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Entrepreneurship & Family Business
Entrepreneurship & Family Business is the programme's single defined focus. Rather than selecting a track in Year 3, students follow one continuous progression — mindset, then functional core, then succession and VC/PE, then governance and wealth — and that progression is itself the specialisation structure.
Depth comes instead from the programme's distinctive components, which recur across all four years and together build the graduating portfolio.
Distinguishing capabilities
- Golf Hours — every semester
- Venture Creation Studio — a four-year build
- Family Business Lab
- Investor & Capital Markets Exposure
- Entrepreneur-in-Residence model
- Next-Generation Enterprise Clinic
- Semester VI Study Tour Capstone — Global Enterprise & Family Business Study
Programme Immersions
Year I - Grounding + Enterprise
SEM 1 - LRP - 6 Days: LTC grounding and leadership formation.
SEM 1 - RII - 3 Days: Pune startup and family-enterprise ecosystem.
SEM 2 - VDP - 3 Days: Rural value-chain mapping and Venture Opportunity Canvas.
Year II - Asian Venture Exposure
SEM 3 - Asia - 5 Days: SWITCH, Slingshot, Block71, NUS Enterprise and GITEX.
SEM 4 - Integration: Capital, digital enterprise, market entry and ESG.
Between Year II and III
Industry Track 1 - 2 Months (summer break): Mandatory NGO / development-sector internship.
Year III - Research + Europe
SEM 5 - RISE - 15 Days: IIM case method, family-business lab and founder research.
SEM 6 - GAIP - 15 Days: Mittelstand, startups, VC and trade in Munich, Berlin and Rotterdam.
Year IV - Civic + Industry Capstone
SEM 7 - SAJAG - 5 Days: Enterprise, innovation, regulation and public policy.
SEM 8 - Industry Track 2: 5-6 months in enterprise, venture, family business or research; produces the capstone.
Ongoing
Industry Readiness Mentorship: Starts Year III, continues through graduation.
Eligibility and Admissions
Eligibility Criteria
Academic Requirements:
- Minimum 50% aggregate marks in Class 12 / 10+2 (or equivalent)
- Recognised board (CBSE, ISC, State Boards, IB, Cambridge, etc.)
Compulsory Subject:
- English must be included
International Candidates:
- Equivalent qualifications accepted, with an AIU equivalence certificate where required
Appearing Candidates:
- Students appearing for Class 12 examinations in 2027 may apply with predicted scores or "Result Awaited" status
- Final admission is confirmed once the official marksheet is submitted
Admission Process
Stage 1 · Online Registration: Create a portal account, upload academic records, and submit a written essay (maximum 750 words) and a video essay (2–3 minutes, as an unlisted YouTube link).
Stage 2 · Entrance Examination: A proctored test for Indian applicants.
Stage 3 · Personal Interaction: A 20–30 minute online conversational interview with a faculty panel, covering your profile, your motivations and your fit with the WPU GŌA philosophy.
Stage 4 · Holistic Evaluation (ABC Model): Agility & Empathic Responsiveness, Broad-minded Orientation to Learning, and Curiosity & Co-Creation for Change, weighted alongside academics, entrance score, essays and extracurriculars.
Stage 5 · Merit List & Offer: A provisional offer letter is sent by email; the admission fee is due by the stated deadline to confirm the seat.
Stage 6 · Document Verification & Final Admission: Original documents are verified, a Student ID is issued, and admission is confirmed.
Additional Notes
- All seats are filled strictly on merit
- Merit-based and special scholarships are available
- The international student process is streamlined
- A programme-switch option is available at the end of Year 1, subject to eligibility and seat availability
Fee Structure
Annual Fee: ₹7,50,000 per year for the Founding Cohort
Founding Cohort:
- Fixed for the full duration of the programme
- No annual escalation
- Regular programme fee: ₹9,00,000 per year
What the Fee Includes
Founding Batch (AY2027–28): All-inclusive — WPU GŌA covers academics and tuition as well as residential stay: accommodation, meals and the mandatory immersions.
From Batch 2 (AY2028–29) onwards: Split responsibility — WPU GŌA covers academics and tuition fees only; students separately bear stay, accommodation, meals and other residential costs.
Scholarships
India:
- Chancellor's Scholars — 100% tuition fee waiver
- WPU GŌA Merit Scholarship — up to 50%
- WPU GŌA Excellence Scholarship — up to 25%
- Annual Performance Scholarship — 50% for the current year only, from Year 2 onwards
- WPU GŌA Local Students Scholarship — 15%, for Goa-domicile students
NRI & International:
- International Scholarship (CIWGC, CIWSEA, OCI, SAARC, Foreign Nationals) — 50% waiver on the domestic tuition fee, excluding the Accommodation & Campus Living Fee
- NRI applicants are not eligible for this waiver
General Terms: A student may hold only one scholarship. Scholarships are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis and are subject to clawback on cancellation. The refund policy otherwise follows the official Admissions Policy.
FAQs
It is Enterprise Creation and Transformation, not a generic entrepreneurship degree — a four-year progressive Venture Creation Studio build, a dedicated Family Business Lab, recurring Golf Hours social-fluency training every semester, and a nine-item business portfolio as the graduating output.
The Life Realization Program (Year 1), Rural Industry Immersion, Village Development Program, the Asia immersion, RISE, GAIP and SAJAG are all mandatory components of the immersion flow for this stream.
For the Founding Batch (AY2027–28), the all-inclusive fee covers the mandatory immersions along with tuition, accommodation and meals. From Batch 2 onwards the fee model narrows to tuition only.
₹7,50,000 per year, fixed for the full programme duration with no annual escalation.
Yes. Merit-based and special scholarships apply primarily to tuition fees — see the Fee Structure section above for the full list of categories and percentages.
Yes. Students appearing for Class 12 examinations in 2027 may apply with predicted scores or "Result Awaited" status; final admission is confirmed once the official marksheet is submitted.