Layer 1 of 6 · where founders come from

The Schools

Twelve schools, each with its own on-ramp to entrepreneurship, and each bringing a different discipline to the founders who start here.

In The Schools

Largest enrollmentGrowing
College of A&S

The largest student body at UVA.

Coulter · VentureForwardEstablished programs
Engineering

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

46% of all venturesEstablished programs
Medicine

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

Industry Partners ProgramGrowing
Data Science

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

Batten InstituteEstablished programs
Darden

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

Galant CenterEstablished programs
McIntire

The University-wide front door for undergraduate entrepreneurship.

Social E-ship MinorEstablished programs
Batten Leadership

Home of the pan-University Minor in Social Entrepreneurship.

E-ship Clinic · IP CenterEstablished programs
Law

Real legal counsel for real startups across UVA and Charlottesville.

nurse-built health techGrowing
Nursing

Nurse scientists turning what they see at the bedside into health technology.

Design minorCurriculum partner
Architecture

Design thinking is the entrepreneurship on-ramp here.

minor electivesCurriculum partner
Education

A founding school of the University-wide Entrepreneurship Minor.

6 sites statewideStatewide reach
SCPS

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

UVA beyond GroundsStatewide reach
Wise & NOVA

The two ends of Virginia where UVA already is.