Although the number of black-owned businesses has grown steadily since the last century, blacks still lack access to management positions in the United States economy. Gains in the 1960s helped somewhat but retrenchment in the eighties has caused many blacks to lose jobs as executives. Now blacks are looking to entrepreneurship for economic power. The growth of minority business executives and owners is directly related to the educational opportunities which have been opened, however, and a downard trend in black college enrollment, confirmed in a 1985 study by the College Board, indicates that with less formal education blacks will have less of a chance to be successful in business. This paper describes four models for minority business education programs which seek to increase the likelihood of black business success. The four programs presented as models are the following: (1) Entrepreneurship and Black Youth Program of Athens, Georgia, which trains high school youth for work in business; (2) two programs at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University which select highly qualified black students and match them with business firms for internships; (3) two programs at Tuskegee University which give business assistance to local people; and (4) a Master of Business Administration program at the Atlanta University Business School. (VM)