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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

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

      Some of the top photos from Central Michigan University events and activities during the week of Feb. 12-18 as captured by University Communications.

      In a large crowd at a CMU men's basketball games, a student stares off into the distance as another student balances three rolls of toilet paper on his head.
      CMU students set the tone for a fun night inside McGuirk Arena for the annual Toilet Paper Toss game as the men's basketball team played host to rival Western Michigan.
      Hundreds of rolls of toilet paper fly through the air during a CMU basketball game, leaving a trail of paper streamers.
      Prior to tip-off, a sellout crowd of 5,032 fans took park in the Toilet Paper Toss, one of CMU's most beloved sports traditions.
      A CMU men's basketball player attempts a free throw as players from CMU and Western Michigan box each other out waiting for a potential rebound.
      Derrick Butler was critical to CMU’s dominant 69-42 win over Western Michigan on Saturday night. Butler helped CMU jump out to a 20-5 lead, finishing with a game-high 24 points.
      Two students wearing safety glasses talk while standing in a workshop, working on heavy machinery.
      Two engineering students gain practical hands-on experience in their engineering lab.
      A small group of students smile while standing next to a table that has a chocolate fountain and strawberries on it.
      CMU Dining hosted the annual Delight-ful event on Valentine’s Day, designed to promote kindness, fellowship and love to the CMU community – is there anything more “delightful” than a chocolate fountain?
      A female student holds a microphone while standing at a wooden podium that has a gold reading light attached to it.
      CMU senior Ku’Juana Quinn leads an interactive Black History Month discussion in the Sarah & Daniel Opperman Auditorium inside Park Library. In her presentation, Quinn broke down the importance of Black film in molding modern Black culture.

      Source: Aaron Mills

      Media Contact: Aaron Mills

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