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Isabella Bank Institute for Entrepreneurship

We are a dedicated institute for student entrepreneurs across campus and beyond. We aim to maximize your success by fostering your entrepreneurial mindset, promote inter-disciplinary collaboration and provide support for the creation and development of your new ventures. Jumpstart your ideas and get involved today!

Tune in for excitement!

Passion. Potential. Pitches. Don't miss any of the 2025 New Venture Challenge excitement.

Tune in Friday, April 11 at 1 p.m. for great ideas and fierce competition. Then, join the judges, mentors, spectators and teams as they see who is going home with thousands of dollars in venture financing. The awards broadcast begins at 6:30 p.m. and one team will walk away as the overall best venture. 

Start your entrepreneurial journey

Central Michigan University’s College of Business Administration is the home of the Isabella Bank Institute for Entrepreneurship and the first Department of Entrepreneurship in the state of Michigan. We are a student-centric hub where experiential, curricular, and external entrepreneurial opportunities intersect.

Our mission is to maximize student success by fostering a campus-wide entrepreneurial mindset that promotes inter-disciplinary collaboration and the creation of new ventures.

We aim to create innovative programming, boost cross-campus and ecosystem collaboration and provide a comprehensive mentoring program.

Our institute provides extracurricular opportunities and is open to all undergraduate and graduate CMU students.

Student opportunities

  • Meet experienced alumni, faculty, entrepreneurs, investors, and other business and political leaders.
  • Learn practical skills, innovative thinking, and connect with mentors and entrepreneurial resources.
  • Attend skill-building workshops and compete in pitch competitions and Hackathons.
  • Take part in special scholarship programs and travel experiences.
  • Pitch your venture at our signature New Venture Challenge event and compete for up to $20,000 in cash awards.

      Find your path

      Are you interested in becoming an entrepreneur?

      Every journey is unique. Explore the opportunities that interest you.

      A look back at some of the best photos from events and locations across Central Michigan University's campus, and the Mt. Pleasant community as captured by University Communications from Dec. 3-9, 2022.

      A male CMU teacher education student helps instruct a fourth grade student inside a an elementary school classroom.
      CMU teacher candidates tutor fourth graders in literacy/composition at Mary McGuire Elementary School.
      A female professor with white hair and glasses assists two students who sit at a table during Spanish class.
      Spanish professor Alejandra Rengifo leads her students through an activity in Pearce Hall.
      A CMU women's basketball player in a yellow uniform looks to pass to a teammate underneath the hoop as a Cleveland State University player in a green uniform guards her.
      The CMU women's basketball team hosted Cleveland State University on Dec. 8 for its annual "Hoops for Hunger" game. Fans were asked to bring canned goods or money to be donated to the Greater Lansing Food Bank.
      A male elementary-aged student wearing glasses, headphones and a Mt. Pleasant Oilers sweatshirt raises his hands and cheers.
      Elementary and middle school students cheer for the CMU women's basketball team during the "Hoops for Hunger" game against Cleveland State.
      A female student with long, blonde hair sits him a chair at a long table while raising her hand. Three students flank her on either side.
      Students visit campus to take part in the Centralis Scholarship Competition.
      A female student signs a sheet of paper at a table while two College of Business staff members wait to give advice on how best to study during exam week.
      Leading up to exam week, The HUB, located in Grawn Hall, provided students with one-minute study tips coaching sessions.
      President Bob Davies and Board of Trustees member Robert F. Wardrop II stand next to a table while President Davies reads from a piece of paper.
      President Bob Davies (right) and Board of Trustees Vice Chair Robert F. Wardrop II (left) at the final Board of Trustees meeting of 2022.

       

      Source: Aaron Mills

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