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The Schulze School of Entrepreneurship

The Schulze School of Entrepreneurship jumped ten spots to #23 in the 2022 Princeton Review list of top undergraduate schools in the country. For the third year in a row, we are the #1 ranked school in Minnesota. We also rank #1 among the nation's Catholic universities and colleges for students studying entrepreneurship.

The Schulze School offers undergraduate and graduate programs in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation, as well as community resources to support new ventures, family businesses, and corporate entrepreneurs. In a world of challenges, we cultivate the next generation of entrepreneurial problem solvers and innovators.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Action

At the Schulze School, we teach students to use entrepreneurial skills to solve problems that matter and create value for others. Learn to:

Identify and evaluate new opportunities
Transform innovations into sustainable businesses
Forge connections with fellow student innovators and seasoned entrepreneurs
Build a solid foundation for long-term success.

The education you’ll receive at the Schulze School is experiential and practical, and you’ll learn both in the classroom and out in the field. You’ll gain highly applicable, concrete skills to use in the real world, whether you start your own business or drive innovation and strategic growth for an existing business or social enterprise.

Schulze is more than a school—it’s a hub of innovative thinking that engages students, seasoned entrepreneurs, small businesses, change makers and leaders. Innovators from all disciplines come to the Schulze School to explore new opportunities, make connections and turn their ideas into reality.

Family Business Center

The Family Business Center is a vibrant community of business families, students, researchers and advisers. For nearly 30 years, the Center has offered practical tools and strategies that help individuals, families and businesses function at their best. Monthly breakfasts explore issues that affect the ecosystem of business families.

Family Business Center

Schulze Innovation Fund

The Schulze Innovation Fund invests in St. Thomas entrepreneurial students and alumni to help them launch and develop their businesses.

Schulze Innovation Fund

William C. Norris Institute

The Norris Institute’s seed capital fund invests in innovative Minnesota companies in the early stages of growth. The institute offers this financial support after a rigorous vetting process, and to startups that address important unmet societal needs.

William C. Norris Institute

Entrepreneurship Means More Than Start-Ups

As trained innovators and problem solvers, intrapreneurs serve as entrepreneurs and innovators within existing organizations.

Entrepreneurship Means More Than Start-Ups

Meet the Ecopreneur Who Loves to Talk Trash

Jason Utgaard's eco-friendly products include recycled skateboard coasters and fire hose wallets.

Meet the Ecopreneur Who Loves to Talk Trash

The Schulze School of Entrepreneurship is ranked nationally as one of Princeton Review's top programs for entrepreneurship and #1 in Minnesota.

427K

Over $427,000 is awarded annually in St. Thomas entrepreneurship student competitions.

$73M

Undergraduate alumni who engaged with the Schulze School in the last 10 years have raised $73,015,877 in funding.

Events

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05/23/22

Dr. Avinash Malshe Receives 2022 Ireland Award

Dr. Avinash Malshe, professor of marketing, has been announced as the recipient of the 2022 John Ireland Presidential Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Teacher-Scholar. The award recognizes the exemplary academic achievement of tenured members of the St. Thomas faculty who have demonstrated a sustained commitment not only to their respective disciplines, but also to… The post Dr. Avinash Malshe Receives 2022 Ireland Award appeared first on Newsroom | University of St. Thomas.

05/23/22

Outside Consultant: What Are Some of the Most Important Characteristics of an Entrepreneur?

This "Outside Consultant" column by Alec Johnson, an associate professor of entrepreneurship, ran in the Star Tribune on May 16, 2022. There is troubling belief that entrepreneurs have some sort of special vision of the future of opportunities, and it just not so. In fact, it’s this type of myth that serves to dissuade potential entrepreneurs. Over my… The post Outside Consultant: What Are Some of the Most Important Characteristics of an Entrepreneur? appeared first on Newsroom | University of St. Thomas.

05/22/22

Realizing Dreams: 2022 Graduate Commencement

It’s a walk they’ve been looking forward to for months, years even. More than 1,100 St. Thomas graduate students were awarded their degrees today, May 22, with 700 of them participating at a duo of outdoor commencement ceremonies. "You have been through a great deal, and yet here you are completing these degrees and celebrating… The post Realizing Dreams: 2022 Graduate Commencement appeared first on Newsroom | University of St. Thomas.