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The McGuire Center has been inspiring entrepreneurial minds for for four decades.
The McGuire Center, a pioneer in entrepreneurship education, continues to be recognized as one of the nation’s elite entrepreneurship centers, offering a variety of rigorous and enriching educational opportunities and connecting with more than 1,100 students from across the University of Arizona each year.
Established in 1984 as one of the first university-based centers for new ventures and pioneering ideas, the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship is among only a handful of entrepreneurship programs in the nation that has maintained top-tier rankings in both undergraduate and graduate rankings in all major surveys for the last decade.
#6 ranked public graduate entrepreneurship program
#9 overall national ranking
entrepreneurship program
29% of students in the New Venture Development Program go on to launch their own startups
"McGuire has connected me with wonderful mentors who have been vital to my progress in making Billight a reality."
Blake Martin, Founder of Billight
"The McGuire Team has breathed confidence into CROAK that we would not have had otherwise because of their practical mentorship and community connections."
Sam Pershing, Co-Founder of CROAK
“Even when you feel like an unstable wall, McGuire provides you with endless support to keep standing as a strong individual.”
Kendall Stein, Founder of ProJ
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