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!
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.
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 acomprehensive 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.
It’s spring commencement weekend at CMU. Time to meet a few of the graduates who are starting careers.
It's spring commencement weekend at Central Michigan University.
Graduates in five separate ceremonies Friday-Sunday will walk across stages in Warriner Hall and McGuirk Arena and set out on their life's journeys.
Torrie Cox of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is one of them. The information technology major will take a job in cybersecurity with payments industry leader Magic-Wrighter. His CMU experience prepped him for the role.
"I gained so much incredible hands-on experience through my IT job on campus," Cox said.
Torrie Cox is beginning an IT career in cybersecurity. Meet more of CMU's May graduates who are moving on to jobs or graduate school, and share where you're headed after commencement, on CMU's Twitter.
CMU will award 3,148 degrees and certificates over the three days:
2,269 baccalaureate degrees.
716 master's degrees.
102 doctoral degrees.
Five specialist degrees.
56 graduate certificates.
The first of the five ceremonies, for doctoral graduates, takes place at 4 p.m. Friday in Warriner Hall's Plachta Auditorium. Raymond Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin System, will deliver the commencement address. Other ceremonies and speakers
International best-selling author and management consultant Subir Chowdhury will speak at the 9 a.m. Saturday commencement for undergraduate and graduate students at McGuirk Arena in the John G. Kulhavi Events Center.
Sarah Rowley Opperman, retired vice president of global government affairs and public policy at The Dow Chemical Company, will speak at the 1:30 p.m. Saturday commencement for undergraduate and graduate students at McGuirk Arena.
Joseph Mancewicz, senior software engineer in NVIDIA's Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence group, will speak at the 6 p.m. Saturday commencement for undergraduate and graduate students at McGuirk Arena.
Darrell Kirch, president and CEO of the American Association of Medical Colleges, will speak at the 1 p.m. Sunday College of Medicine commencement in Plachta Auditorium.
Check CMU social media channels throughout the weekend for scenes from commencement.
