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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.

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      Eta Sigma Gamma wins awards

      by Sanjay Gupta
      CMU’s chapter of Eta Sigma Gamma won several awards at national conference, including the Chapter Excellence Award.

      Central Michigan University’s Eta Sigma Gamma chapter members took home a number of awards at this year’s conference held virtually.

      Bridget Lally, senior, was both an Undergraduate of the Year honoree and poster presenter.

      Katherine Reid received the John McGovern Scholarship, which is the national chapter’s highest award to a graduate student. Only one award is given per year.

      CMU’s chapter also won another Chapter Excellence Award.

      Eta Sigma Gamma is a national professional honorary in health education. Its mission is to elevate the standards, ideals, competence and ethics of professionally prepared students in public and school health education. CMU’s chapter is designed to further the education, health, and wellness of the those on campus and in the community through education, research, service and advocacy projects.

      Membership at CMU is open to all majors in public health education, minors in public health and Master of Public Health students.

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