Changes

The University of Pittsburgh is a city campus complete with a 4-year accredited undergraduate program, which is complemented by numerous prestigious graduate programs such as the School of Medicine, School of Law, School of Pharmacy, and School of Business. The University of Pittsburgh received $759 million dollars 2013 to fund its various research endeavors.  These research dollars have cultivated an environment that has fostered the growth of an incredibly young yet impressive entrepreneurial landscape.  Pitt is a giant in life science innovation, partnering its engineering and business programs with the international conglomerate UPMC has yielded a plethora medical device inventions and innovations in addition to numerous patents, start-ups, and licensing opportunities.  This success is trickling down through the ranks allowing students to become instrumental in large entrepreneurial pursuits.  Programs such as the Coulter Program and CMI fund medical innovation and are beginning to recognize the untapped potential of undergraduate innovators. In addition , opportunities like the Randall Family Big Idea Competition help support  any  venture at the university .Through special project funds and micro grants these programs are giving students a chance to contribute to Pitt’s entrepreneurial success.  Undergraduate funding is an incredibly new standard for our entrepreneurial faculty and the overwhelming success of the pilot groups of undergraduate teams has ensured the sustainability of undergraduate funding for years to come.