Entrepreneurship education is a pan-university effort at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, named "America's Most Entrepreneurial Campus" by Princeton Review and Forbes.com.

UNC offers:

• Entrepreneurship education and experiential learning opportunities for students, faculty and staff.
• Research and thought leadership into the broad range of issues that affect entrepreneurs today.
• Career and launch support for serious entrepreneurs who are ready to start new ventures of all kinds — commercial, social, artistic and scientific.
• A wide and growing network of entrepreneurs and support organizations that help fund and nurture the development of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship at UNC.

Top-ranked entrepreneurship education, previously available only to students at Kenan-Flagler Business School, expanded across campus in 2004 with the launch of the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative.

The initiative took seed funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and planted it across campus - with faculty, staff and students who developed programs of all kinds.

As a result, programs are now available for virtually any student, faculty and staff member at UNC who is interested in turning his or her idea into a successful business or nonprofit.

CEI funds some of UNC's signature entrepreneurship programs. It also promotes and connects the growing community of entrepreneurs and the schools, departments and organizations that develop and direct UNC's entrepreneurship programs. Among them are the College of Arts and Sciences, the graduate and professional schools, and the Office of Technology Development as well as student groups of all kinds.

These efforts are extended exponentially with the support of community partners, like the Council for Entrepreneurial Development and Renaissance Computing Institute, and the hundreds of alumni, social entrepreneurs and business people who participate in and fund programs and activities across campus.