Business Plan Team

The culmination of combining classroom teaching with multiple interactions with mentors and roundtable discussion? Entrepreneurship students are asked to master the process of developing a comprehensive and feasible business plan, and that plan is entered into national competition.

While in the program, students focus on a specific business and learn how to translate classroom teaching into real-world dynamics. WCE students compete among themselves to be selected for the team that will represent WCE in national business plan competitions. The selected team travels to three to four competitions where they face teams from universities such as Carnegie Mellon, Babson, Nebraska, Indiana, Syracuse, and Arizona. These include competitions where our undergraduate students face teams of MBA students from other schools.

Our philosophy is that we are prepared to compete with anyone, anywhere, anytime. The competitions create a sense of urgency and focus that is crucial to the success of any entrepreneurial venture. WCE students have won 10 awards in national business plan competitions in the past five years.