Layer 1 of 6 · where founders come from

The Schools

Twelve schools, each with its own on-ramp to entrepreneurship — some deep, some still being built.

In The Schools

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College of A&S

The largest student body at UVA.

Coulter · VentureForwardStrong
Engineering

The most built-out entrepreneurship infrastructure at UVA — curriculum, funding, makerspace and an 18-year translational center.

46% of all venturesStrong
Medicine

UVA’s deepest translation engine — and the largest single source of faculty ventures.

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Data Science

UVA’s newest school — and the fastest-moving frontier for new ventures.

Batten InstituteStrong
Darden

UVA’s deepest bench in entrepreneurship education — the incubator every school’s founders pass through.

Galant CenterStrong
McIntire

The University-wide front door for undergraduate entrepreneurship.

Social E-ship MinorStrong
Batten Leadership

Home of the pan-University Minor in Social Entrepreneurship.

E-ship Clinic · IP CenterStrong
Law

Real legal counsel for real startups across UVA and Charlottesville.

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Nursing

Clinical insight with no translation route — the clearest unclaimed opportunity at UVA.

Design minorContributing
Architecture

Design thinking is the entrepreneurship on-ramp here.

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Education

A founding school of the University-wide Entrepreneurship Minor.

6 sites statewideOpportunity
SCPS

UVA’s widest footprint, and the school most likely to meet a founder already running something.

UVA beyond GroundsActive
Wise & NOVA

The two ends of Virginia where UVA already is.