World’s richest and largest student startup competition adds more prizes

HOUSTON – (Dec. 9, 2016) – Applications opened today for the 17th annual Rice Business Plan Competition at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business April 6-8. Graduate students with a business plan for a new startup company are encouraged to apply to compete.

Forty-two teams from the world’s top universities will be selected from the applicants to vie for more than $1.5 million in prizes.

David Ruth 713-348-6327 david@rice.edu Jeff Falk 713-348-6775 jfalk@rice.edu Rice’s graduate entrepreneurship program ranked No. 2 in US HOUSTON – (Nov.

Rice University Jones School graduates impacting Houston and Texas economy in a big way.

HOUSTON -- (Oct. 5, 2017) -- The 2017 winner of the Rice University Business Plan Competition (RBPC) -- Forest Devices from Carnegie Mellon University -- will ring the Nasdaq Stock Market closing bell at 3 p.m. CDT Tuesday, Oct. 10.