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Entrepreneurship Program at WFU
Wake Forest University provides a comprehensive program in entrepreneurship that supports undergraduate and graduate students from any discipline.

The Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts, located in 128 Manchester Hall, coordinates the academic and the co-curricular programs including:
  • An interdisciplinary Minor in Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise;
  • First-year and upper-level seminars in entrepreneurship offered across various liberal arts disciplines;
  • Creativity courses and activities to increase awareness of the benefits of creativity in problem solving and discovery;
  • The University Center for Entrepreneurship, located in B03 Kirby Hall, where students can get advice, receive informal education, and meet with successful entrepreneurs, faculty advisors, and mentors;
  • Contests and grants in which students and faculty members are encouraged to submit plans for promising new ventures; and
  • Faculty training, development and grants for creating new courses or incorporating entrepreneurship into existing curricula.

In addition to the courses and programs offered through the Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts, there are two other nationally ranked programs in our business schools.

The Wayne Calloway School of Business and Accountancy has an active program in entrepreneurship for undergraduate business majors. In 2003 the Calloway School's program was ranked 16th in the nation by U.S. News & World Reports.

The Babcock Graduate School of Management has a nationally recognized program in entrepreneurship supporting graduate business students on the Wake Forest campus. The program was ranked in the top quartile (1 of 12) of national entrepreneurship programs by Entrepreneur Magazine (April, 2003) and #1 by Faculty responding to the survey. The program won the Model MBA Program in Entrepreneurship from the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship in 2003. The Angell Center was selected as a NASDAQ Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence in 2001. Dr. Stan Mandel, director of the program, received the Irwin-McGraw-Hill Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award, presented by the Academy of Management in 2001.