Spotlight on Startups: How to be an entrepreneur at U of T
Published: September 13, 2013
Many new students arrive at U of T eager to kick off their self-driven careers even before they earn their diploma—and opportunities for them to hone business skills on campus are as diverse as they are plentiful.
Undergraduates taking Engineering or Commerce will develop their entrepreneurial skills as part of their academic programs.
But there are many ways students enrolled in sciences, social sciences, humanities, and more, can launch their entrepreneurial careers, too.
The interactive flow chart below suggests just a few of the many paths to entrepreneurship networks and opportunities available to all students at U of T.
It's part of the new U of T News series called Spotlight on Startups, which profiles the many entrepreneurial efforts growing from the hundreds of companies spun out from research and connections sparking every day at the University of Toronto:
U of T hosts more than 50 enterprise-fostering courses, programs, labs, clubs, contests and speaker series across its faculties, departments and campuses — and then there are all the innovations developing in informal settings. U of T ranks No. 1 in North America for number of startups launched. And its roster of spin-off companies driving innovation in Toronto and around the world continues to grow.
Click on any of the dark blue boxes below to find out more about how your interests may set you on one of the University of Toronto's many tracks to enterprise development.
