SCHOOL OF BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

(San José, Costa Rica

Campus Cohort)

The SOBE provides the most comprehensive and flexible Business as Mission training available in YWAM’s University of the Nations.

The SOBE is a 12-week YWAM school with in-depth training that shifts students understanding of business, while providing a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals needed for a successful Business as Mission venture.  The school can be taken online or in a classroom cohort, with the core instruction taking place through over 525 short videos divided into almost as many learning segments.  Students are presented with regular questions and exercises that promote learning and application to each concept taught.  Live staff one-on-ones, coaching sessions and weekly school processing times supplement the instruction. Pre-recording the curriculum and delivering it online results in every student, regardless of location and financial resources, receiving the same quality instruction.

THE LECTURE PHASE (Costa Rica Campus Cohort)

We now offer a cohort option to our 12-week Online SOBE. Student who want more live elements to the school will want to consider the coming to the host YWAM campus in San José Costa Rica to take the online school this way. This will be our first ever bi-lingual (English/Spanish) SOBE done in partnership with YWAM in San José. Student will meet together daily in a classroom to take the online course together. This will allow them to process together in more depth what they are learning. Many of these class times will be facilitated by a SOBE staff person. Several of the 12 weeks of instruction will be facilitated by the speaker teaching in the online videos.

The cohort students will continue to interact with the online students as they would in every Online SOBE. This means participating on Friday live zoom events with all the students around the globe and with that weeks instructors.

Course Content include:

• Marketing

• Servant Sales

• Operations and Fulfillment

• Product Development (Disciplined Entrepreneur)

• Brand Management

• Lean Startup/Model Canvas

• Human Resource Management

• Business Finance

• Introduction to Business as Mission

• The Biblical Purpose and Values of Business

• Integrating the Business and the Mission

• Apostolic Entrepreneurship

• Weekly BAM Case Studies

DATES & Details

• Cohort Course Dates: September 23rd - December 13th, 2024 (Costa Rica), Students arrive on September 21st.

• All cohort students will apply and make payment online through YWAM San José. Online students please apply through the online school page and YWAM Colorado Springs.

COSTS

• Lecture Phase: $2,600 (World A), $1,800 (World B). $1,600 (World C) - Includes Campus Food and Housing

• Optional Internship: varies depending on trip and location

PREREQUISITES

• A DTS is NOT required for the cohort in Costa Rica.