• UMD is ranked as one the nation's top schools for entrepreneurship and innovation, including a #14 ranking in the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Colleges for Entrepreneurship in 2012


• Every spring, UMD celebrates “30 Days of enTERPreneurship,” awarding more than a quarter million dollars for the best ideas and innovations in technology, business, healthcare, social value, and clean energy

• In 2009, UMD was selected as a pilot Changemaker Campus by Ashoka, a global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs since 1980.

• UMD’s first-of-kind undergraduate program where students live, study, and work in a hybrid incubator/dormitory was featured on CNN when it launched in the 2000-2001 academic year.

• UMD launched the very first technology incubator in the state of Maryland in 1985 that has since graduated over 100 companies including billion dollar biotech industry leaders Martek Biosciences and Digene.

• UMD has global entrepreneurship partnerships in China and Israel

• UMD has an on-campus angel network of more than 40 active, accredited angel investors and venture capitalists.

• UMD offers weekly innovation and entrepreneur office hours and mentoring/pitch programs with experienced entrepreneurs-in-residence.

• UMD alumni have been the innovators and entrepreneurs behind  Under Armour, Sirius XM Radio, Google, Polycom, Crash Bandicoot, arterial stents, hyperlinks, and the UPC bar code. Read about more UMD innovators here.

We invite you to explore any of the links to Academy, Academic Programs, Competitions  and Events,  and UMD Resources, to learn more about innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland.
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