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*The U-M College of Engineering and the Ross School of Business has created a joint '''Michigan Master of Entrepreneurship (MsE) degree'''. The MsE program, which will admit its first class in the fall of 2012, will educate students on forming and managing high-growth potential, scalable businesses.
*A '''minor in entrepreneurship''', available to students from across the university, is also under development.
*The CFE offers the '''Master of Entrepreneurship''', which will help them understand entrepreneurship principles and help them launch their first startup.
<br/>At present, there is a wide range of non-degree programs across all curricula, including
*CFE and ZLI jointly manage the U-M '''TechArb Student Accelerator'''. With the aid of an advisory board of community leaders and professional investors and additional funding from the Office of the Vice President for Research, TechArb helps early stage companies founded by U-M students refine and develop their ideas and business plans, and eventually showcase teams to funders.
*'''MPowered Entrepreneurship''' is a student group created and run by students to expose their fellow students to entrepreneurship and support student ventures through coordinated events and network. MPowered sponsors several high-profile activities to encourage student involvement, notably the '''1,000 Pitches''' campaign, a campus-wide idea competition, the MPowered '''Career Fair''', focused on growth companies, the Ann Arbor '''Startup Weekend''', to connect students with the local startup community, and '''eResVex''', a living space for collaboration and learning entrepreneurial studying for student communityentrepreneurs, '''Startup High School''', to connect with high school students in Detroit, and '''MHacks''', the largest hackathon in the nation.
*'''Tech Start program '''is an 8-12 week full time summer internship overseen by U-M Tech Transfer for graduate students from many academic areas including Law, Engineering, Medicine, Business and Information Technology, offers participants an intensive experience working on entrepreneurial projects.
*'''Entrepreneurial Multidisciplinary Action Projects '''(EMAP) offered by the Ross School of Business/Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies immerses student teams in domestic and international entrepreneurial businesses to execute assignments that may include developing business plans, identifying new product opportunities or formulating market entry strategies. EMAP projects are required of all first year business graduate students.
